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Academic but not dry, informative and entertaining

Lecturer and Speaker

By its nature ‘academic’ anticipates an appetite for a deeper study of a subject whilst ‘informative’ seeks an insight into a body of knowledge, and then there is the more sensory process of practical handling of plants and food.

  

Academic Tutor for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education – Course Director on International, Residential and accredited programmes.

  

Speaker for The Arts Society


Watch me on livestream: 

Monet at Giverny  https://viking.tv/live/monday/explore-claude-monets-life-in-giverny-with-guest-lecturer-caroline-holmes

English Homes & Gardens in the West  

Explore English homes and gardens with guest lecturer Caroline Holmes | Viking.TV

Broadcaster and Consultant Designer

Watch the genesis of the gardens I designed for the Notre Dame de Calais project

 

ENGLISH VERSION Engraved on my Heart: a new garden for Calais

 https://vimeo.com/56191406  


FRENCH VERSION Gravée dans mon Coeur: un nouveau jardin pour Calais

https://vimeo.com/411518118


Also featured on TF1 December 2018 


Caroline Holmes at home

Our house and garden have been featured in Country Homes and Interiors, Country Life, Country Living, Garden News and The English Garden and filmed for BBC and Anglia TV. 

NHK (Japanese National Broadcasting) filmed a 50-minute programme (broadcast in Japan) on my work and lifestyle in my gardens, house, office and surrounding countryside 

Watch a young me making a salad from my garden on www.youtube.com/cookingtipstv


Author

 12 books the latest ‘The English Garden celebrated – where the wildness pleases’.  for ACC Garden Art Press. Enjoy a preview   

https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/where-the-wildness-pleases/


Water Lilies and Bory Latour-Marliac, the genius behind Monet’s Water Lilies published 2015 Garden Art Press ACC in English and French 


 RHS Herbs for Gourmet Gardeners - finalist in Garden Media Guild’s ‘2014 Reference Book of the Year Award’ 


 Monet at Giverny – my bestselling book reprinted several times since 2002 

Garden Art Press ACC

in English, French and Norwegian

  

Impressionists in their Gardens Nominated for ‘2012 Inspirational Garden Book of the Year’ Award by the Garden Media Guild

Garden Art Press ACC  

 


Lecturer, Speaker and Consultant

Lecturer and Speaker

Consultant Designer … past green worlds

Lecturer and Speaker

National and international – on every continent except Antarctica. France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, USA and Japan as well as for The Arts Society in the UK, Spain, Australia and New Zealand, The Plant School, Royal Horticultural Society, Road Scholar, Ciceroni Travel, Martin Randall Travel, Noble Caledonia, Viking Cruises, Queen Mary II, and other specialist organisations. 

See below for list ‘Lectures and talks into other worlds’ 


Course Director for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education 

2022 Residential weekend at Madingley Hall go to section University of Cambridge ICE

2022 Live and Virtual Summer Festival of Learning 

https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/courses/international-summer-programmes

https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/university-cambridge-virtual-summer-festival-learning

Tours and cruises

Consultant Designer … past green worlds

Lecturer and Speaker

This year saw the return of tours and cruises: in April I was Guest Speaker for Viking joining their world cruise from Aqaba to Piraeus. In May I was Guest Speaker for Noble Caledonia on a land tour of the Italian Lakes. Later this year it will be the Trade Routes of the Middle Ages in October from Bergen to Barcelona for Viking. Plans are in place for 2023 and 2024 for details contact me or watch this space.

Consultant Designer … past green worlds

Consultant Designer … past green worlds

Consultant Designer … past green worlds

Apart from the Calais project above, I have undertaken commissions specialising in evoking historical, artistic and symbolic references. Currently advising on creating a sense of place around a dramatic housing project in Norfolk which includes several acres which will be part of the Queens Green Canopy celebrations.

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The joy of discovering my first book 'Icons of Garden Design' on the shelves of a French chateau

Lectures and talks into other worlds …

I am happy to tailor my subjects to suit you - an academic but not dry lecture or an entertaining talk - with or without illustrations running from 45-90 minutes. There is also plenty of scope for making a half or full day exploring many of the subjects in greater detail. My books, consultancies, research and travel all feed into the narrative. 

Any distance, fees negotiable, for details please email caroline.holmes.gmm@btinternet.com

Titles are listed in order of popularity:

A symphony in blue - the artist, the couturier and Atlas the most fabulous mountaine of 

             all Africke

Painter and plantsman: Cedric Morris, irises and beyond 

Permission to Poison – the Alnwick Garden

Memphis before Elvis – plants and gardens in Ancient Egypt

Australia’s Impressionists – The Heidelberg School, Fontainebleau and the zenith landscape

Impressionists in their gardens – living light and colour 

Messenger or missile - Angels with glad tidings, doom, gloom or perdition

Monet at Giverny

Artists’ Views of Australia – Aboriginal, Pioneer, Botanical and Impressionist

Engraved on my heart – Mary Tudor, the Cloth of the Field of Gold and Notre- Dame-de- Calais

Sheer Folly – weird and wonderful Garden buildings

Bory Latour-Marliac, the genius behind Monet’s Water Lilies

Step into the Christmas Card

The Folly and the Ivy

The Edwardian Garden - golden and delicious

Flowers of Impressionist Youth: World War One and their Remembrance

Herbs for Gourmet gardeners

Sheer Folly – garden history and its architectural extravaganzas

Around the world in three years with Captain James Cook and Joseph Banks 

           – an overview of the people, plants and places 

Gainsborough and Brown – eighteenth century landscapes from wider perspectives 

A Royal country house estate - Sandringham 

Design and diversity – the University Botanical Gardens, Cambridge

Medieval Gardens fit for use or delight

Motifs and motivators - water lilies, irises and sea shells

William Robinson, Gravetye Manor and Bory Latour-Marliac, a story of water lilies, 

               prunes and wine

How does your garden grow Mr. Shakespeare?

Historic Gardens of East Anglia


Cruise lectures include:

  • Pre Raphaelite paintings in Liverpool – reading the symbols
  • A taste for the exotic – global plants naturalise
  • A Celebration of English homes and gardens in the West   
  • Georgian landscape capabilities – Gainsborough and Brown
  • Around the world in three years – James Cook and Joseph Banks
  • Carl Linnaeus and horticultural exchanges across the high seas

· Ruhleben - Berlin's racecourse to WW1 internment camp

· Sunlight on snow - Monet in Norway

· Water as power and pomp - Peterhof, a Baroque masterpiece

· A cool history - Sea Island Cotton 

· Can you eat buccaneers? Unzip a banana and other Caribbean food stories

· Fatal attraction the darker side of plants

· Is Coral suffering from tooth decay?

· It's a rum solution to industrial waste

· Take your Turk's cap off to cactus

· A palette of adaptation - Mediterranean garden plants

· Oranges and lemons - the many zests of Mediterranean citrus 

· Shellshocker – Venus, goddess of love and gardens with Flora

· The Italian Garden template – the spectacular, theatrical Villa d’Este

· An overview of French garden history with special reference to the Abbaye Saint-Andre

· Fit for purpose - the Medieval Garden from Charlemagne to the Benedictines

· Lifting the Bamboo curtain – nineteenth century new shoots to contemporary waves

· Roman Gardens – architecture, illusion and plantsmanship

· Seasoned landscapes – olives, vines, fruit and herbs along the Rhone

· Aphorisms of Hippocrates unbound

· Behind the label - Greeks immortalised in plants

· Other people's odysseys - Homer to Leigh Fermor

· Atlantic soundings – other travellers’ accounts of the Canaries and Madeira 

· Vines, wines and Have some Madeira, m’dear

· A Floral Mosaic – Madeira and the Canaries

· A more propitious clime - glass in the garden

· A right royal setting - Kew

· A walk through domestic English garden history 

· A walk through grandee garden history

· A world resource for 200 years - the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

· Fit for use of delight - Medieval Gardens

· Keats and the Regency Garden

· Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - moving heaven and earth

· Order, Power and Conceit - Tudor Gardens

· The Chelsea Gardener and Philadelphia's Plant Hunter

· Carbon trading in Mozambique 

· Charles Darwin, the Beagle and other observations

· Hidden histories – the Lotus and the blue water lily

· Joseph Hooker - plant hunter and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

· Linnaeus, his plant hunters and the 18th century botanical w.w.w.

· Marianne North – a remarkable Victorian traveller and painter

· People, Plants and Places - Darwin to Dylan

· A Floral kingdom – plants of the Cape

· Reunion - a little French history spiced with vanilla and cloves

· Seychelles - land and sea

· Sir Samuel Baker, the Bawa brothers and landscaping Sri Lanka

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Precision is what makes the clipped hedges and topiary at Erynignac such a joy

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