28.01.23
Kay McHugh will give an online talk about her family’s 25-year journey to restore and rebuild their 17th Century house and 3-acre walled garden. The talk explores their journey from historical research to rebuilding a home for a young family, creating a productive garden, and its restoration for the public to enjoy.
27.01.23
The Folly Fellowship invites you to join their zoom talk which looks back at previous Folly Fellowship outings with pictures from Peter’s Godfrey’s collection. Begins at 8pm.
25.01.23
Uncover women’s contribution to post Second World War landscape architecture in Britain with Dr Camilla Allen, Research Associate at the Manchester School of Architecture, in a talk hosted by the Yorkshire Gardens Trust.
08.12.22
Caroline Holmes takes us on an entertaining tour of garden follies from the Renaissance to the present day, and from Charles Hamilton’s Painshill to Bomarzo, with its ‘Sacro Bosco’, and Richard Pim’s ‘blotto grotto’ using wine bottles at Westonbury Mill Water Gardens in Herefordshire. Zoom link will be sent; 6.50pm, for lecture at 7pm.
02.12.22
The Folly Fellowship invites you to join their Zoom meeting this Friday, 2 December, at 8.00pm London time
23.11.22
Percy Cane and the Yule Family at Hanstead House – a fascinating account of the rediscovery of a forgotten commission by a leading C20 garden designer; a wealthy family with an extravagant lifestyle; and the eleventh-hour effort to save the garden from residential development. The lecture will be given over Zoom by Kate Harwood.
21.11.22
Berkshire Gardens Trust welcomes Richard Bisgrove (retired Course Director in Landscape Management at the University of Reading) who will talk about Nancy Lancaster, the niece of Lady Astor of Cliveden and a designer of both houses and then gardens. Tickets £5 via eventbrite start time 2pm but event will be recorded
17.11.22
Hal Moggridge, OBE, speaks about his work, including his role in restoration planting at Blenheim, his later work for the Royal Parks in London, the creation of the National Botanic Garden of Wales in 1995–2000 and, in 1979, the garden for Stevens Close for Jesus College, Oxford. Zoom link will be sent; 6.50pm, for lecture at […]
