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March 2019
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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For those that missed Joe's inspirational talk to us in January, I am delighted to report that he is again fit enough to give his talk as The Gardens Trust Spring Lecture Finding my place: The Rediscovery and Restoration of Hagley ParkJ with Joe Hawkins MA, Head of Landscape at Hagley Hall Park, Worcestershire In this [...]
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Dr. Rita J. Dashwood, who has recently received her doctorate from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, will talk about the role of gardens in the courtships of Jane Austen's novels. N.B. This lecture will be held in the Leamington Tennis Court Club.
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Please double click on link below for further details CHT Study Day - Celebrating Rhododenrons at Highbury
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Please double click on link below for details CHT Exploring Rhododenrons in Two Birmingham Gardens
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Roger Boxall, Head of Landscaping at Warwick University Campus, has kindly agreed to show us around and explain the difficulties of maintaining an attractive natural environment against a background of untrammelled expansion of buildings.
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