How to Read a Designed Landscape with John Phibbs ‘Point Blank & Pollards’– Saturday 6th March at 2.00 pm ‘Horses & Hedges’– Saturday 13th March at 2.00 pm ‘Farms & Follies’– Saturday 20th March at 2.00 pm ‘Vallies & Varlets– Sunday 28th March at 5.00 pm Spring is coming but Covid is still...Read More
FRIDAY, 5th March at 7:30 pm The Early History of Purley Hall by Ben Viljoen Booking: Please book online. Please visit our website at www.berkshiregardenstrust.org and click on “2021 Events”. The tickets are £5 each. We will send you a Zoom link for the lecture a few days before the 5th March. The lecture will...Read More
Warwickshire Gardens Trust Date: April 15 Time:5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Booking: Matt Fattorini Email: mattfattorini@gmail.com http://warwickshiregardenstrust.org.uk/event/lecture-the-story-of-britains-three-tree-cathedrals-dr-camilla-allen/ There are three tree cathedrals in Britain – places where trees have been planted to emulate the spatial form of medieval gothic cathedrals – yet these special and eccentric groves are little-known and understood. Camilla Allen has been...Read More
Warwickshire Gardens Trust Bookings: WGTWebsite:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-wass-recent-archaeological-discoveries-at-stowe-tickets-133231459883 Date: March 17 Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Cost:£4 – £5 Event On Line Talk Stephen has been undertaking a series of archaeological investigations in the Stowe Landscape, including the Cascade, The Doric Arch and the approaches to the Rotunda (see images). He will be updating us on these,...Read More
Image: Great Linford Manor looking beautiful in the January snow. Parks Trust The National Lottery Heritage Fund project at Great Linford Manor Park is progressing well despite Covid-19 restrictions. The Water Garden and pond dredging works have now been completed and the silt is drying out around the edges ready to be spread across the...Read More
Hogarth, Soane and Turner: revealing some artists’ gardens by Sarah Couch Friday, 12th February at 2pm This lecture is about restoration work in West London of the visionary Regency architect Sir John Soane’s extraordinary Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing; his friend and protégé the painter JMW Turner’s exquisite villa at Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham; and the artist...Read More
Great Linford Manor Park, Buckinghamshire – Events 2021 ***Please note with the Covid pandemic restrictions the Parks Trust does not expect any events to take place until end of February 2021 Weekly, Friday mornings (until June 2021) 10-10.30am – Talk: Great Linford Manor Park Pond Works Join us for weekly updates to find out how...Read More
Overview Date 24 July 2021-31st July 2021 https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/a-history-of-the-landscape-garden-architecture-and-design?code=O20I301SSR Explore the architectural and design elements of what has become known as the landscape garden. Beginning with the classical world of Greece and Rome, we will examine different stylistic approaches to the creation of historical gardens and study buildings and monuments designed for gardens in their context. ...Read More
History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar, Institute of Historical Research & the Gardens Trust. Day & Time: Thursday, 6:00 pm via Zoom Website: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/history-gardens-and-landscapes Email: gardenhistory.ihr@gmail.com SPRING PROGRAMME 2021 : RUS IN URBE -Greening Responses to Crises and Catastrophe 1950 – the present 14 Jan Dr Jesse O’Neill (Glasgow School of Art, Singapore) Singapore’s ‘Garden...Read More
Spring Lecture Series 2020/21 Organised by The Gardens Trust and The London Gardens Trust 11 January: Biodiversity & the Wild West End Project: Encouraging Birds, Bees & Bats into the Heart of London – Tom Gray, Senior Ecological Consultant, Arup 25 January: The Integration of Derek Jarman’s Garden – Professor Michael Charlesworth, University...Read More