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September 2018
THE GARDENS TRUST’S ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018 Our Conference this year will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd September and be based at two separate but nearby venues in Birmingham’s leafy suburbs: the Edgbaston campus of the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TT and (3.5 km distant) the gloriously Venetian Gothic Highbury Hall, [...]
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Revealing Repton: Approaches to the Art of Landscape Gardening Stephen Daniels, author of Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (1999), will examine the way that Repton has been interpreted and commemorated. The appreciation of Repton's work and landscapes has developed in many ways over the years. In this lively and fully illustrated talk Professor [...]
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Hereford & Worcester Gardens Trust are holding an exhibition to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Humphry Repton (1752- 1818) and his work. The Art Gallery, Broad Street, Hereford. Saturday 6thOctober to Saturday December 1st 2018: Tuesday to Friday 10am to 4pm, Saturday 10am to 12.30 pm. Entrance free and an illustrated catalogue available. Three Red Books [...]
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A two day Symposium – Day one will be a full day symposium of illustrated talks on a variety of folly-related subjects including: Michael Cousins – Follies in the Chinese Taste Dr Laura Mayer – ‘Tea-things, Dragons and Bells’: Humphry Repton’s Greatest Folly Isobel and Julian Bannerman – subject to be confirmed Dr Iain Jackson – Nek Chand’s Rock Garden at Chandigarh, India [...]
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County Gardens Trusts’ researchers from across the country will present short but in-depth talks on their research findings. The programme is still coming together with some excellent speakers. The final programme will be sent to delegates who have booked closer to the date but we’d like to tempt you with the following outline of the day: [...]
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John Massey of Ashwood Nurseries will talk to the Warwickshire Group of Plant Heritage on the subject 'Autumn into Winter'.
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