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Download a booking form below.
Coffee Mornings for Friends These take place at 10.30am on the first Friday of each month in the Garden’s Conservatory. Following coffee a member of the Garden staff leads a tour of the Garden. Dates for your diary: • Friday 3rd July • Friday 4th September • Friday 2nd October • Friday 6th November Please note that we do not have a coffee morning in August Friends Reception at the Garden Join us for our annual drinks reception at the Botanic Garden. The evening will give Friends a chance to explore the Garden at a time when it is closed to the public and to find out more about recent developments. No charge is made for this event but please contact the Garden Office if you wish to attend 01865 286690 or e-mail postmaster@obg.ox.ac.uk Tuesday 28th July at 6.00pm Annual General Meeting The meeting will be followed by an illustrated talk: Timothy Walker, The First Hundred Years. If you are planning to attend it would be helpful to our planning if you could indicate this on the booking form. Tuesday 13th October at 8.00pm Friends Autumn Visits The Royal Botanic Garden, Kew This coach trip has been specially requested by Friends as getting to and parking near Kew is difficult. Journey time is approximately 1.5 hours. Friends can book for a one hour talk by a guide (£3.00 per person) at the beginning of the visit. This needs to be booked in advance. There is also a train ride around the 300 acre garden (£4.50) which is a useful way to look around. This can be booked on the day. Saturday 18th July at 9.00am (meet outside Thornhill Park and Ride) There are still a few tickets available Friends can visit Kew Palace (£5.00 on the day). Food at four varied venues, from more formal dining to snacks and hot drinks, or bring your own picnic. Entrance free to Friends when you present your FOBG card (ensure you bring it on the day). Guests £11.00 entrance. Cost of the coach is £16.50 per person, plus guided walk if wanted at £3.00. Please enclose your mobile phone number. Bledlow Manor House Garden By kind permission of Lord and Lady Carrington The house dates from the mid 17th century, and the Carrington family have lived here since the end of the 18th century. After the 1945 war, when the present Lord and Lady Carrington started to restore the house, there was no garden of any kind. The architect Robert Adams renewed the South front of the house and from 1969 worked with the Carringtons to design the garden. It has a wonderful structure, with a paved garden, parterres, shrub borders, and a large walled kitchen garden. There is also a water garden with paths, bridges, walkways fed by 14 chalk springs and an attractive and important collection of specially commissioned contemporary sculpture. The visit will be followed by tea at the pub Lions of Bledlow. Saturday 19th September at 2.00pm Limited to 50 people Tickets £10.00, Guests £12.50 Thenford House Gardens and Arboretum By kind permission of Lord and Lady Heseltine This visit is slightly different. The Heseltines have so many requests for people to visit the gardens that they only open on a few days a year for numerous groups. Friends will visit independently once we have given out named tickets are given out at the gate. This is a rare chance to see a wonderful garden that is evolving constantly. The gardens are very large and the trees and shrubs are often very rare and collected by famous modern plant collectors. There are recently dug lakes, water gardens, stew ponds. The new Indian style garden inside the walled garden is quite amazing and at the cutting edge of both modern and ancient garden design. The sculpture garden displays contemporary works. There is much walking to see the 65 acres, so sensible shoes are a must. Teas for sale or bring a picnic. All Friends and their guests must be named and we have to give the list in advance. If your name is not on the list, you cannot enter. Sunday 18th October at 2.30pm Tickets £12.50, Guests £15.00. [This visit replaces that planned to Mr and Mrs D. Heather’s garden (Greystones) as they are sadly unable to host us this year]. Trees of Oxfordshire Walter Sawyer, Superintendent of the University Parks will be leading this second session of looking at trees that thrive in our Oxfordshire climate, soils and changing environmental conditions. Friday 23rd October at 4.30pm Wine will be served afterwards Tickets £8.00, Guests £10.00
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