20.09.21
Sharing your parks and gardens research: Introduction to OASIS
Sarah Poppy, Senior Policy Adviser at Historic England, introduces OASIS as a repository for historic parks and gardens research.... continue
Past events
07.07.21
Valuing our Historic Garden Heritage: Lotherton Hall’s Edwardian Gardens POSTPONED
This event, by Yorkshire Gardens Trust with Leeds City Council, has had to be postponed. A new date, in 2022, will be advertised soon. Programme: Lotherton: a Garden in Time: The Wider World... continue
05.07.21
Kim Wilkie – The English Landscape Revolution, with Hampshire Gardens Trust
The C18th English Landscape Movement pioneered a new approach to farming the land which gives great inspiration for the issues we face today The English landscape, farming and gardening have always been interwoven in practical and productive good sense. This developed boldly and rapidly at the beginning of the eighteenth century when English...
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27.05.21
Virtual visit to Denmans Garden + Michelham Priory garden
Gwendolyn van Paasschen, current owner, will talk about Denmans, the former home and garden of the late John Brookes MBE, one of Britain’s most influential landscape designers. James Neal, gardener at Michelham Priory will talk about this 7 acre site of a former Augustine Priory in Upper Dicker, East Sussex, enclosed by England’s longest...
26.05.21
Elite Landscapes: Beyond the Castle Gate with James Wright and Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust
Using contemporary art and poetry alongside documentary sources and archaeology, buildings archaeologist James Wright unpicks the world of high status parks and gardens in the Mediaeval & Early Modern periods. Whilst ostensibly providing food for castles and great houses, these landscapes also had a fascinating highly symbolic and ritual...
20.05.21
Zoom talk: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Alison Moller
Alison Moller will explore the background, influences and meaning of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation in southern Scotland. This important C20th/C21th garden is private and open to the public for only one day a year, but Alison was given rare access to explore it with her husband who took the photographs that illustrate this talk.
29.04.21
Zoom talk by Pippa and Steve Termple: From one great plague to another – the history of the superb Euston Hall garden
Walk around the wonderful Euston Hall gardens in the steps of John Evelyn, William Kent, Capability Brown – and a mystery individual – a man who was to engineer the water features in that showcase of C17th gardens, Versailles.
24.04.21
Another Virtual Tour of Shropshire’s Follies and Curiosities
The Folly Fellowship invites you to join them for a talk given by a member which will pass through South Shropshire and travel along the borders with Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire before returning to Shropshire.