Forthcoming Exclusive Friends Events

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22^nd May

To help plant the summer bedding for the Italian Gardens or Water Terraces

Come and help the Blenheim Palace Garden team and plant some of the many hundreds of home grown geraniums and fuchsias which give great colour to the Italian Garden each year.

(maximum 6 people)

11am 

Cost:  FREE

Led by: Gardening Team

To meet down at the Gardens Department

29^th May

Learn how to thin grapes...

For the enthusiast who wants to know how to correctly thin their grape vine.

(Maximum 6 people)

11am - 12noon 

Cost:  FREE

Led by Gordon Masters

To meet at the Pleasures Gardens

5^th June

Grape / Peach - Green House Tour

Viewing the hot house where award winning grapes are grown, talk given by Gordon Masters, Kitchen Garden Foreman, with over 60 years' experience at Blenheim Palace growing fruit and vegetables.  Also, included in this tour is a view of the hot house where white peaches are grown, an opportunity to see the peaches at their best, ready for picking and understand the commitment that goes into growing this type of fruit.  (Max 20 people)

11am - 12noon

Cost:  FREE

Led by:  Gordon Masters, Kitchen Garden Foreman for over 60 years

To Meet at the Pleasures Gardens - go directly to the Green Houses

November

TBC

Hands on experience of planting some of the several thousand naturalising spring bulbs that are planted each year at Blenheim Palace.  (Max 6 people)

11am

Cost:  FREE

Led by:  Gardening Team

(Weather dependant)

Dates

Proposed Event

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February / April / May

Talk on the Blenheim Palace Archives

An exclusive insight into the Blenheim Palace Archives by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough.  This talk will be given by His Graces Archivist John Forster who has been at Blenheim Palace for over 25 years.

28^th Feb (Thursday)

13^th April (Saturday)

15^th May (Wednesday)

Talk by John Forster, His Grace the Duke of Marlborough's Archivist

Cost:  £6.00

To meet in the Indian Room

For tea/coffee biscuits

Start 10.30am

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Event

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Friday 10^th May

Themed Winston Churchill Dinner - Menu based on Churchill's Favourite food (Billy Bush, Head Chef at Blenheim Palace has looked at a cook book by Churchill's private cook Georgina Landemare)

'Winston Churchill was elected Prime Minister on Friday May 10^th 1940 and talk will be given by Karen Wiseman, Education Officer at Blenheim Palace

Talk by Karen Wiseman 

Cost:  TBC

Time: 7pm

Venue: Marlborough Room 

1^st October

Ceramics and Furniture Talk - led by Head Guide Jennie Grubb.  Jennie has been guiding at Blenheim Palace for over 20 years.  As a member of the English Ceramic Circle, she attended a seminar at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2011, entitled 'The Baroque and its influence on Ceramics in England'.  In May 2012, Jennie visited Dresden to further her knowledge of Meissen porcelain.

Led by:  Jennie Grubb

Venue: TBC

Times: 2.30pm - 4.30pm