The Trust organises a full programme of events. Lectures are held during the winter months. In the spring and summer there are outings to gardens, some of which are not normally open to the public.

SURREY GARDENS TRUST AGM & CHRISTMAS PARTY
Friday 11 December 2009
Our AGM is an important annual meeting which gives members the opportunity to learn what the Trust has been doing during the year. The AGM will be followed by a lecture entitled All Nature is a Garden: William Kent, Painter, and the Birth of the English Landscape Movement by James Bolton, garden designer, lecturer, garden historian and tour organiser whose book Garden Mania was published in 2000.

2010 Winter Lectures

Saturday 9 January
Ashdown Forest and it's hidden Forest Garden by Hew Prendergast. A garden in the Forest is being restored and the lecture will cover this as well as Ashdown Forest. Hew Prendergast is a biologist by training and worked at Kew for 13 years. He is now Clerk to the Conservators of Ashdown Forest and has been there since 2003. He is also a Trustee of the National Botanical Gardens of Wales.

Saturday 20 February
Creative Garden Photography by Tracey Hallett, former editor of Outdoor Photography who is currently undertaking a personal project to photograph all the wildflower species in Sussex.

Saturday 13 March
Thomas Mawson (1861-1933) a leading Landscape Architect of the Edwardian Era by Jonathan Lovie, garden historian.

2010 Summer Visits

Thursday 6 May
Afternoon visit to Pyrford Court & The Bothy, Woking. Pyrford Court was built for Lord & Lady Iveagh in the early 20th century and the whole garden is listed Grade II on the English Heritage Register. The garden is known for its spectacular display of rhododendrons and azaleas and contains the National Collection of Wisteria.

Saturday 22 May
Evening visit to Birtley House, Bramley. This is an opportunity to enjoy the 'Sculpture in the Garden' exhibition while drinking a glass of wine and to explore the 20 acres of bluebell wood and the rest of the garden which includes a productive kitchen garden and a rose garden.

Wednesday 16 June
Morning visit to Sullingstead, Hascombe. Edwin Lutyens was commissioned to design Sullingstead in 1896 and an extension in 1906. Gertrude Jekyll is known to have supplied plants from her nursery. Recently extensive restoration and replanting of the garden has been carried out and there is a charming new summerhouse and a rose garden with striking hard landscaping and closely-planted roses.

Tuesday 22 June
Morning visit to Royal Farm House, Elstead, a garden planted for year-round interest with hornbeam hedges, rose arches, a railway carriage and a wooden xylophone to play.  Afternoon visit to Foxhill, Elstead, a garden of four acres on a steeply sloping hillside with a formal garden partly designed by Gertrude Jekyll which includes herbaceous and mixed planting and an impressive water feature.

Visits are also being arranged on Wednesday 21 July to Woodhill Manor, Shamley Green, and on Tuesday 7 September to Kew Gardens with a guided tour.  There will be further events arranged for later in the summer.