19.10.22
Brenda Colvin Study Day Wednesday 19th October, 10.30 – 16.30 at The Springhead Trust, Mill Street, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury SP7 0NU, cost £50 including coffee, lunch & tea. Brenda Colvin CBE 1897-1981 was a Landscape Architect and Garden Designer who worked widely across the United Kingdom on private gardens as well as…
14.10.22
Retrospective and Renaissance – a Revival of the Walled Kitchen Garden: celebrating 21 years of the Walled Kitchen Gardens Network, we will be looking at the extraordinary revival of walled kitchen gardens over the last 20-30 years, to opportunities for the future and the remarkable ongoing work of these historic and productive gardens
12.10.22
Celebrating 21 years of research and restoration by volunteers of a ‘Capability’ Brown Walled Garden at Luton Hoo Estate (Bedfordshire), Wednesday 12 October 2022, 10.00-17.00 £50, Talks, tours, displays, booklets, lunch. Limited numbers More details: treasurer@bedsgardenstrust.org.uk
06.10.22
Join Dr David Marsh and Nottinghamshire Gardens Trust to plumb the murky and oderous depths of fertiliser, and examine how it has made our gardens bloom through the ages.David is a garden historian and blogger, a Gardens Trust trustee, and one of the most knowledgeable and entertaining speakers you will ever have the pleasure of […]
29.09.22
J.C. Niala, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, talks about her ethnographic study on the practices of urban gardeners in the City of Oxford. She explores the relationships over a century between growing plants, health & community. Zoom link will be sent; 6.50pm, for lecture at 7pm.
29.09.22
Following the AGM, Linden Groves, landscape historian and Head of Operations and Strategy at the Gardens Trust, wanders through the fascinating history of how 18th century estates, Victorian parks, and post-war parks have been designed and adapted to capture children’s imaginations; and some of the ways children experience these landscapes today.
08.09.22
Join the Leicestershire & Rutland Gardens Trust for an evening as we host our annual lecture with guest speaker Marcus Chilton-Jones, Curator of RHS Garden Bridgewater. Marcus will deliver a lecture on the restoration of Bridgewater, one of the largest gardening projects undertaken in Europe in recent years.
02.09.22
Visit to The Lyde Garden/The Manor House, Bledlow, Buckinghamshire, HP27 9PB, 10.30am. Introductory talk after which we will tour The Lyde, designed by Robert Adam, with a walled kitchen garden, water garden, parterres and sculptures, and a sunken aquatic garden created by the late Lord Carrington and The Manor House, his private garden.
