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.

During summer 2011 there have been six very popular visits, the first of which was a study day at Savill Gardens, Virginia Water, in May.  In June there was a day in Hampshire with a morning visit to The Manor House, Upton Grey, a fully restored Jekyll garden, followed by an afternoon visit to Tylney Hall Hotel, Rotherwick, with 66 acres of restored historic gardens also with Jekyll link.  Members enjoyed an after hours garden tour of RHS Wisley Gardens during June, in the company of Jim Gardiner, Director of Horticulture for the Royal Horticultural Society.  August saw members at Gatton Park, Reigate, to celebrate the Trust’s 20th anniversary with a day of talks and walks.  Later in August there was a day in Sussex, visiting Sussex Prairies, Henfield, in the morning and Colwood House, Warninglid, in the afternoon.  The final outing of the year was a study day at Brookwood Cemetery in September, organised jointly by the Surrey Gardens Trust and the Association of Gardens Trusts.

SURREY GARDENS TRUST AGM & CHRISTMAS PARTY
Friday 9 December 2011
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 Use and Beauty: The Gardens of Woerlitz by Stephen Desmond, an independent landscape consultant and lecturer, specialising in the conservation and management of historic parks and gardens, with an intimate knowledge of the ornamental park at Woerlitz and its connections to many famous 18th-century English landscape gardens, including Painshill.

2012 Winter Lectures

Saturday 14 January
The weather world of Gilbert White in 18th-century Selborne by Ian Currie, well-known weather forecaster and author who lives at Coulsdon in Surrey.

Saturday 25 February
The Arabian Gardens of Spain by Cherrill Sands, garden historian and lecturer. The talk will illustrate the gardens of Andalucia and their history, features and design but most of all the plants, from roses to orange trees.

Saturday 24 March
Harold Peto by Jonathan Lovie, historic landscape consultant working with English Heritage and the Garden History Society.