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November 2018
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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As the final event of our Repton celebration, Dr. Jane Bradney will give a lecture: "'In the enemy's quarters': Repton and the Picturesque." This will follow the AGM and precede tea. Please e-mail mattfattorini@gmail.com if you are planning to attend.
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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'.
Find out moreDecember 2018
Dr David Jacques, Garden Historian and Conservationist, will consider how writers have reinvented the Elizabethan garden........ We don’t really know what Elizabethan gardens were like; we have almost no images, and poets were general and metaphorical. That, however, has not stopped historians, architects and even garden historians imagining their design, decoration and detail. The very absence [...]
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An opportunity for Gardens Trust and County Gardens Trust members to meet each other and discuss ideas, skills and questions. The Agenda will allow for discussions on CGT experiences of Conservation, Outreach and Research & Recording and includes a talk from Suzanne Carter, Community Engagement Consultant, on the HLF-funded Sharing Repton ‘Historic Landscapes for All’ activity at [...]
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William Morris was a key figure in the development of domestic garden design, helping to popularise the Arts and Crafts garden among the artistic middle class in England and the US. His gardens at Red House and then Kelmscott Manor supplied endless inspiration to Morris, his family and friends.The Enchanted Garden explores how Morris's contemporaries and subsequent generations of [...]
Find out moreJanuary 2019
This course offers an overview of garden history from the Egyptians to the present day. The sessions will comprise a lively mix of illustrated lectures, hands-on activities using primary source materials and opportunities for discussion, as well as advice on further reading and how to approach personal research projects. Archive materials and illustrative examples from Highbury [...]
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Joe Hawkins, Head of Landscape at Hagley Hall, will reveal his journey of discovery during the ongoing restoration of its once celebrated but since sadly neglected, Grade I registered, C18 gardens. Joe Hawkins was led by an early love of nature and landscape into the world of historic gardens with a career-start tending the Grade 1 [...]
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Dr Anna Keay, formerly Curatorial Director at English Heritage, now Director of the Landmark Trust Anna will discuss the remarkable garden created at Kenilworth Castle in the 1570s by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Perhaps the best recorded Elizabethan privy garden, it was at the heart of Elizabeth I’s long visit to the castle in 1575, and the [...]
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