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February 2019
Professor Simon Hiscock, Director of the Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum will reflect on the garden’s history and plans for the future.
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Matt Halford will talk about the pressures and difficulties associated with running a Grade I Registered Garden, like Warwick Castle, in the face of large numbers of visitors.
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EMMA TENNANT: A BOTANICAL TOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE SCILLIES TO SUTHERLAND Emma Tennant’s botanical watercolours will be shown in a selling exhibition at the Garden Museum from 6 March – 28 April 2019. Tennant says, “I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been [...]
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Dr Sally Jeffery, Architectural and Garden Historian will discuss her recent research on Hawksmoor’s designs. A visit to Castle Howard will follow on 11th July 2019.
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WGT member Christine Hodgetts will talk to the Warwick Society on Warwickshire gardens in the C16-17.
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Conference: Trees & Townscape - Past, Present & Future. Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2019 Weekend conference at St John's College, Oxford, organised by the OGT. The programme will comprise a day of presentations on Saturday 16th March looking at the value of trees from a variety of perspectives. On Sunday 17th March there will [...]
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Dr Barbara Simms, Institute of Historical Research, University of London will discuss the gardens and landscapes designed by Brookes over 50 years. ... John Brookes is most often associated with the ‘room outside’, the subject of his seminal book of 1969 inspired by his early work in small London gardens. This talk will demonstrate how [...]
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Researching the gardens of the early seventeenth century has a number of inherent difficulties, the main one of which is that almost no gardens remain from this period, the vast majority having disappeared altogether or been subject to such change and renovation over the centuries that little or nothing remains of their original state. This is [...]
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KIFTSGATE COURT GARDENS: 100 YEARS OF WOMEN GARDENERS The Garden Museum will celebrate Kiftsgate Court Gardens and three generations of talented female gardeners in an exhibition showing from 9 April to 9 June 2019. Heather Muir spent 30 years establishing the gardens and was succeeded by her daughter Diany Binny, followed by her granddaughter Anne in [...]
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Professor Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia will discuss the preliminary findings of a research project on the history of orchards at his university. ......... Orchards have formed an important part of our culture for centuries, but investigations of their history are hampered by persistent myths concerning the age of particular examples, and about the antiquity [...]
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