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Meets: Status: Active, open to new members Leader: Norman Leader: Eileen, Mary U, Sue McG, and Pam Group email: Garden group When: Please see Events for dates and times Venue: See Events Cost: £13 annual subscription 2026 to include speakers and room hire. Other events and activities at cost. The Garden group aims to have a varied programme each year with visits to gardens by coach or car share in the warmer months, sometimes including a talk/tour by one of the gardeners. We also have more casual visits to local gardens or villages that open in aid of charities. Our outings are relaxed and enjoyable with enough time allowed for members to enjoy the café on offer as well as time to spend in the nursery or gift shop where these are on site. We are a friendly group and one of the joys of summer is enjoying tea and cake in convivial company. In the cooler months we have talks from interesting speakers. Please look at the Events below for details of our plans and look at the Group News further down the page to review memories and lovely garden photos from the last year or so. Garden Group Risk Assessment and Emergency Contact Details . Forthcoming events 1st September 2026 10:00 am Talk Forget-Me-Not Kathryn Hulme will be our September speaker on behalf of Forget-Me-Not flower designers and flower school in Shildon. Bookings for this event will start in June and end in August. Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Free to Garden members but £2 for other u3a visitors. Booking Required 6th October 2026 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Meeting Annual Planning Meeting plus Plant Swap On Tuesday, 6th October we shall hold our annual planning meeting. Doors open at 9.30 for a 10 am start with a view to having the room cleared by noon. […] Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Included in subs and free to members Booking Required 4th November 2026 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Talk The Riverbanks of the Durham Peninsula: From Defensive Moat to Romantic Landscape Please note that this talk is Wednesday, 4th not Tuesday, 3rd. Our November speaker is Martin Roberts and he will be giving one of his garden talks about our local […] Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Free to members with £2 contribution to overheads from any other u3a visitor Booking Required 1st December 2026 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Talk Fashions in English Gardens Lesley Collins will talk to us about fashions in English gardens. Doors open 10 for 10.30 start. Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Free to group members. £2 for other u3a members towards room hire. Booking Required 5th January 2027 12:15 pm Outing New Year Lunch and Garden Quiz Our New Year lunch and quiz last January went down very well indeed and many of you asked us to do it again next year. We had out garden group […] Cost: Members will pay for their own food and drink with an appropriate tip. Booking Required 2nd February 2027 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Talk Garden related talk Sue is trying to get a local bee-keeper to come and talk to us in February 2027 so we can learn what the best plants are to attract bees. Watch […] Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Free to members but a small charge to non-members Booking Required 2nd March 2027 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Talk National Trust talk about Mount Grace Priory Sue is looking to get one of the local National Trust speaker volunteers to come and talk to us about Mount Grace Priory. There are interesting buildings to explore there […] Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Free to members but a small charge to non-members Booking Required 6th April 2027 9:00 am Coach trip Wallington House, Gardens, & Estate Pam is organising our first outing of the year that will be to the lovely Wallington gardens near Cambo, Morpeth. We visited in autumn some time ago but this spring […] Cost: TBA but likely to be about £23-£24 plus coach cost Booking Required 4th May 2027 Outing Langton Farm, Great Langton Pam is organising our second outing of 2027 that will be a private visit to Langton Farm at Great Langton, not far from Northallerton, owned by Annabel and Richard Fife. […] Cost: TBA plus car-share Booking Required 1st June 2027 Coach trip Goldsborough Hall, Knaresborough Mary is going to try to fix up a visit to Goldsborough Hall for us sometime in June 2027. The outlooked date here is Tuesday, 1st June but the property […] Cost: TBA Booking Required 6th July 2027 Outing Mount Grace Priory plus Whitegates Nursery Mary is working on a trip to Mount Grace Priory around July 2027 as a follow-on to the March National Trust speaker talk. This is not a full day so […] Cost: TBA Booking Required 5th August 2027 Outing Old Durham Gardens Norman will be organising an outing to Old Durham Gardens in August 2027. One part of the garden has limited opening times so our visit could very well be on […] Cost: TBA Booking Required 17th September 2027 Coach trip Autumn Flower Show at Newby Hall & Gardens Pam will organise our final coach trip of the year that will be to the Autumn Flower Show that is held at Newby Hall each autumn. Ticket prices will not […] Cost: TBA but likely about £25 pp plus coach cost Booking Required 5th October 2027 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Meeting Annual Planning Meeting plus Plant Swap On Tuesday, 5th October 2027 we shall hold our annual planning meeting. Doors open at 9.30 for a 10 am start with a view to having the room cleared by […] Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Free to members Booking Required 2nd November 2027 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Talk Talk about Ushaw Historic House and Gardens Sue and Eileen are collaborating to get a speaker from Ushaw to come and talk to us about the lovely gardens there. Venue: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church Cost: Free to members but a small charge to non-members Booking Required Garden Group News Below are some of the places we have been and enjoyed over the last year or so. I hope you enjoy the memories. Seaton Delaval Hall 10th July 2026 This outing was a joint Local History Group/Garden Group visit to Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland. On 10th July, a glorious day, the group set off by coach to explore some botanical and historical aspects of the (in)famous hall and gardens at Seaton Delaval. The hall’s history was vividly outlined in a walking tour given… Read more : Seaton Delaval Hall Scampston Hall 8th July 2026 Members of the Garden group enjoyed a coach trip to Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire on Wednesday, 8th July. It was a scorching hot day and you can see from the colour of the grass just how hot and dry it has been the last few weeks. About half the group had opted for the… Read more : Scampston Hall Summer 2026 garden visits 29th June 2026 Oliver Ford Garden The owner of the Oliver Ford Garden at Consett is a garden designer and winner of BBC Gardener of the Year in 2007. It is a one and a half acre garden designed to blend in with the surrounding landscape. The overall feel of the garden is relaxed with little formality. There… Read more : Summer 2026 garden visits Dalemain Mansion & Historic Gardens 4th June 2026 The Garden Group had a coach trip to Dalemain Mansion House and Historic Gardens today, 4th June. Many on this trip enjoyed a guided tour of the house and said it was very interesting. All spent some time in the gardens. Sadly the weather was against us and it rained almost all day, varying between… Read more : Dalemain Mansion & Historic Gardens Thornton Hall May 2026 25th May 2026 Fabulous Thornton Hall on this blazing hot late Bank Holiday Monday. This was a u3a outing and has become an annual event for our Garden group to kick off the summer garden visits. Magnificent flowers and borders without a weed in sight, as usual, plus refreshments and the plant fair. There were at least sixteen… Read more : Thornton Hall May 2026 Constable Burton Tulip Festival 4th May 2026 Members of the Garden group enjoyed a visit to the Constable Burton Tulip Festival on Monday, 4th May. This is an annual event over the early May Bank Holiday weekend. Constable Burton is a private house and the interior can’t be viewed but the grounds open a few times a year for special events, and… Read more : Constable Burton Tulip Festival RHS Harlow Carr 9th April 2026 Our day out to RHS Harlow Carr on 7th April has been the highlight of the year so far. The weather could not have been better for the time of year, and we arrived before it became too crowded. “Where to go first?” was the question given all the delights on offer. A few of… Read more : RHS Harlow Carr Winter 2026 Garden Events 5th March 2026 In January 28 members of the Garden Group went to Bishops Lodge in Toronto for a New Year lunch and a 50-question quiz. Jean H and Sue McG created the quiz and we had seven tables, each making up a team. There was much laughter and whispering on the tables so that potential answers were… Read more : Winter 2026 Garden Events Autumn 2025 Garden Events 31st December 2025 In September we held our annual planning meeting. The Garden group members contributed to a list of potential venues to visit and speakers to come and talk to us and all members had the opportunity to vote for the ones they wanted. The result is a list of venues and speakers that will keep us… Read more : Autumn 2025 Garden Events Plotter's Forest Christmas Light Trail 3rd December 2025 On the evening of Wednesday, 3rd December several of us from the Garden Group met at the Plotter's Forest entry hut at Raby Estates to walk round their Christmas Light Trail. This photo shows some of the group enjoying the evening. The photos below show you the walk around the trail. There was a pretty… Read more : Plotter's Forest Christmas Light Trail Auckland Palace Gardens Tour 13th August 2025 On 13th August on a very hot day, even hotter than the day before, it was a little ‘testing’ for some of us. However, we were again fortunate to get a first-rate guide called Clive, who was both knowledgeable and enthusiastic. We started in the south-facing Walled Garden, which dates from the 17th century, a… Read more : Auckland Palace Gardens Tour Botanic Garden tour 12th August 2025 The fine weather promised a good day on 12th August at the Botanic Garden and Ian, our enthusiastic guide, certainly delivered one. The tour started at the Prince Bishop’s Terrace outside the café, where a large selection of potted plants is changed with the seasons, ensuring there is always a good display. We left the… Read more : Botanic Garden tour 1 2 3 Next Page Page last modified 15th May 2026

Where: See Events, Bishop Auckland

• Cost, as stated 25 Aug 2026 £13 annual subscription including speakers and room hire; other events and activities at cost

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