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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.

Summer 2009 activities have included: an afternoon visit to The Watergardens, Kingston-upon-Thames; an outing to Chilworth Manor; a day in Sussex visiting Bankton Cottage at Crawley Down in the morning and Kidbrooke Park, Forest Row, in the afternoon; a talk at Goddards, Abinger Common, by Jane Balfour followed by a walk round the garden; a coach trip to Hampshire spending the morning at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and the afternoon at Houghton Lodge Garden and the Hampshire Hydroponicum with a talk by Colonel Busk; a guided walk on Horsell Common and a study day on Brookwood Cemetery with a lecture by John Clarke in the morning and a tour of the cemetery in the afternoon.

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.

DETAILS OF EVENTS LATER IN 2010 WILL BE ADVISED IN DUE COURSE

These are some of the gardens visited by SGT in past years:

Sites on the English Heritage Register
Albury Park, Ashtead Park, Bagshot Park, Busbridge Lakes, Claremont, Greathed Manor, Great Fosters, Hascombe Court, Gatton Park, Munstead Wood, Painshill Park, Reigate Priory, Sutton Place, Titsey Place, Vann and Wisley RHS Garden

Other Gardens in Surrey
Alderbrook, Barnett Hill, Betchworth House, Great Tangley Manor, the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Nutfield Priory, Rake Manor and many others

Coach Trips outside the County
Essex (Audley End), Hampshire (The Gallery Garden at Broughton, Mottisfont Abbey and Marshcourt at Stockbridge), Isle of Wight (Osborne House), Kent (Godmersham Park and Goodnestone Park), Oxfordshire (Haseley Court and the Manor House, Bledlow), Somerset (Hestercombe) and Eltham Palace, South London