Avon Garden Trust Events

The Trust holds regular visits and meetings to inform our members. Guests are always welcome to attend and join us in visits to some parks and gardens not normally open to the public.

Booking is required for these visits so we can cater for the numbers attending. Please use the booking forms below, or linked from each event and you will receive further details and confirmation of your place.

A booking form for Avon Gardens Trust events is available to download here - AGT Events Booking Form

Advanced booking for future AGT events is advised, but late booking can always be accepted if space on the event allows.

Upcoming Events

A lecture - 'Spanning the Political Divide- Neo-Palladianism and the Eighteenth-Century Landscape'

Saturday, 27 January 2024 - 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

A lecture from Garden Historian Dr. Carole Fry to be held at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution, Queen Square, Bath. BA1 2HN. Commencing 2.30 pm in the Elwin Room. Neo-Palladianism was a taste revolution; a movement that transformed much of the built environment in the 18th century. The style had an all-encompassing effect leaving its mark on every aspect or art and taste at this time. There are many myths about neo-Palladianism however,...

Saturday, 24 February 2024 - 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Helen Lawrence-Beaton will present a lecture on Thomas Archer at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution in Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN commencing 2.30pm in the Elwin Room. Thomas Archer (c.1668-1743) is starting to be given appropriate recognition as a key architect of the English Baroque after years in the shadow of his contemporaries. However, despite having been known to have designed several of the country's most important country houses and garden buildings, he is often...

A Lecture on Harry Inigo Triggs (1876-1923)

Saturday, 23 March 2024 - 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Inigo Triggs was an architect who lived near Liphook, Hampshire, in the early twentieth century and practised mainly in the East Hampshire and West Sussex area, although he also executed commissions in Switzerland and Sicily. The lecture will give a brief outline of his life and publications and a sample of his main commissions – Little Boarhunt, Ashford Chace, Aecen Gill/Shalesbrook Wendy Bishop Wendy commenced her career in teaching, including Malawian secondary schools and a...

Spring Planting In the Garden at South Kelding

Tuesday, 9 April 2024 - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

A private visit for spring planting to South Kelding Gardens, Brewery Hill, Upton Cheyney, South Gloucestershire BS30 6LY Created from scratch over the past 15 years or so, this 7 acre hillside site offers a huge variety of planting, from Mediterranean screes to sha de-loving woodland and streamside bog habitats. With stunning panoramic countryside views from the top, orchard, native copses and arboretum, there is something for everyone. In April there should be early fruit...

Saturday, 27 April 2024 - 2:30 pm - 4:15 pm

A lecture by Christopher Pound at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institute, Queen Square Bath. BA1 2HN. Commencing 2.30pm in the Elwin Room. Legacy of spa gardens. Gardens have always been an essential attribute for European spa towns. The illustrated presentation will explore how the principal spa gardens in Bath informed the architecture and development of the terraces and crescents in the city. Walking in gardens was an essential diversion from treatments at the...

Tuesday, 14 May 2024 - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

A private visit to the gardens at Parsonage Farm, Parsonage Lane, Publow, BS39 4HP An early 20th century woodland and plantsman's garden Parsonage Farm comprises 20 acres of fields and garden on a sheltered hillside in Publow, with 400m of frontage onto the river Chew. It is unusual in having a mix of soils, with Somerset rich loam and coal but also including a strip of greensand approx. 50-100m wide which allows ericaceous plants to...

Saturday, 1 June 2024 - Sunday, 2 June 2024 - 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Member Trish Gibson is opening her garden at Badgworth Court Barn, Stone Allerton, Axbridge, BS26 2NQ. Entry is £5, children free. Home-made teas in aid of Weston Hospicecare. Plants for sale. Well behaved dogs on leads welcome.

A visit to the gardens of Belcombe Court

Wednesday, 12 June 2024 - 2:00 pm - 4:15 pm

We have arranged a private visit to the Gardens of Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon. We will be led on the tour by garden historian Professor Timothy Mowl. The neo-classical, picturesque-style gardens and 60 acres of parkland surround the mellow jumble of cobbled and fern-filled courtyards and gothic archways. The landscaped garden at Belcombe is registered by English Heritage as being of special historic interest. A blend of restored 18th century features and contemporary additions...

Wednesday, 3 July 2024 - 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

We have arranged a private visit to the Registered Park and Garden at Bradley Court, Wootton Under Edge We will be led around this historic landscape, almost unchanged since Jan Kip drew it in the early eighteenth century, by the owner, Helene Gammack. Bradley Court is a 16th century country house just outside the small Cotswold town of Wotton-under-Edge. The house and grounds feature in Sir Robert Atkyns ‘The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire’...

Wednesday, 24 July 2024 - 10:30 am - 4:00 pm

A morning visit to Stoberry Park then afternoon visit to nearby Milton Lodge with tea, cake and guided tour. Stobury Park– morning visit with coffee, cake and light lunch With breathtaking views over the Wells and the Vale of Avalon, this six acre family garden, planted sympathetically within its landscape, provides a stunning combination of vistas accented with wildlife ponds, water features, sculpture, a gazebo, rose garden, lime walk and 1½ acre walled garden. Borders are...