EVENTS
SYMPOSIUM
Swimming Pools in the Garden - a symposium at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire: 31 May 10.30 -16.30
Organised by the Garden Museum in partnership with Buscot Park the day will offer both talks and guided tours exploring the rich history of pools in British gardens and landscapes. For full details of the day, includmg its 6 speakers, and to book your ticket, visit The Garden Museum
EXHIBITIONS
The Bicycle Boys - An Unforgettable Garden Tour
This exhibtion is based on a bicyle tour around the UK undertaken by two young Americans in June 1928. Based on their journal which charts their progress and what they saw it offers a spotlight on over 80 Unforgettable Gardens as experienced in the 1920 in contrast with what visitors see today. View the exhibition here.
WALKS
Hackney Festival 2026
Walking Backwards Through Time: Loddiges Nursery: Saturday 30 May 11.30 -13.00
Join the Hackney Society for a guided tour, as part of the Hackney Festival 2026, through the former site of Hackney’s Loddiges Nursery and learn how their international plant trading transformed landscapes around the world. The spectacle of the Nursery, with its innovative Palm House and infamous Botanical Cabinet, will be brought to life during the tour through maps, visual imagery and stories. You will hear from the Nursery plants themselves: of their migration stories, of plant hunters undertaking worldwide expeditions, of plant journeys from wilderness homes to London’s East End docks. The walk through the former Nursery site will finish in public gardens that act as a “living museum” with its array of flowers, shrubs and trees - whose ancestors were originally imported into the UK during the same era of Loddiges Nursery in the 1700 / 1800's.
London Park to Park
Monthly walks led by Tim Ingram-Smith taking in up to half a dozen parks, squares, gardens, a nature reserve or an urban woodland over a leisurely 5 - 6 mile walk. As well as Tim Ingram-Smith there will often also be a local person invited to join the walk to share their knowledge of the area.
All walks will start and finish close to public transport, and the destination may well include a cafe, pub or somewhere warm, dry and convivial.
Walks are scheduled to take place on the second Sunday of the month:
2026 dates have not yet been published.
Secret Gardens, Hidden Churches
Saturdays, 24 January, 28 February and 4 April; and and Sundays 3 May and 4 July 2026, all at 11.00am.
'Many of the most interesting sites in the City (of London) are somewhat tucked away and often quite small. While the City does not have big parks like those further west it does have c.250 open and green spaces: many created by the destruction of the Great Fire and the Blitz. A walking tour for those interested in discovering the history, sites and buildings of the City of London'. Book via Eventbrite
Guided walks of Willesden Jewish Cemetery
The only Jewish cemetery registered as a Park or Garden of Special Historic Interest, Willesden is a remarkable survival, telling the stories of the first ethnic minority to settle in Britain in modern times. Designed as a ‘Garden Cemetery’ in 1873, Willesden Jewish Cemetery offers a unique blend of heritage and nature.
Regular guided walks of the Cemetery continue: dates currently available for booking include:; Sundays 11 and 18 January; 1, 8 and 15 February; 29 March, all 11.00am EXCEPT 8 February which is at 11.30am.