During the weekend we will explore the living roots that fed, cured and inspired the Ancient World in Egypt and Greece, with a special focus on the significant role of gardens, real and imagined. The key source to our understanding is exactly that water, the long course of the Nile and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Entertaining with intellectual gymnastics, jaw dropping extravagance and vision. Cryptic, fantastical, allegorical, innovative, romantic and royal. Renaissance to Painshill, Bomarzo’s Sacro Bosco, grottoes & more https://ogt.org.uk/2021/06/29/8-december-lecture-sheer-folly-weird-and-wonderful-garden-buildlings
A series that moves inland from the coast but never far from Mediterranean blues whether from the sky or the sea. Fertility was created in these ancient landscapes by forming terraces or restanques which can still be seen planted with vines, olives, fruit or vegetables. The gardens that surround many of the villas we
November
Suffolk's Unforgettable Gardens
9 Religious roots to riotous ingenuity - Bury St Edmunds and its Abbey Gardens
23 Ickworth - a stupendous monument to folly
28 'Paradise on Porcelain' - English landscapes glimpsed on Catherine the Great's Green Frog Service
13 Sussex weed to Westminster Hall - the many and varied hearts of oak across the High Weald live in Lewes for the Sussex Gardens Trust
I will be giving a talk and interviewing Great Saxham residents past and present. At Priors Farm (in a marquee) by kind permission of Colonel and Mrs. Gordon Lennox. Starting at 2.30pm there will also be a glass of fizz, tea and cakes. To book please call: Sue Soper on 01284 850678 or Rosie Irish on 01284 811669
Special online event hosted by the Australian Garden History Society Victoria Branch. Bookings open on 1st June: tickets AUS$12 for AGHS members; AUS$ 12Friends of the RBG; AUS$ 15 Non-members. Bookings online: trybooking.com/BZGVX. Further information contact: Wendy Dwyer aghsvicbranch2@gmail.com or 0408340967
A Platinum Jubilee focus. Whether official or private domain, Princess or Queen, we see fashions, tastes and social mores in the architecture and gardens. Windsor and Balmoral castles, Buckingham Palace, Sandringham.
Elegance and the Grand Tour 1714-1830. The development of architecture, landscapes, painting and furniture. Lord Burlington, William Kent, Robert Adam, ‘Capability’ Brown, Repton, Gainsborough, Chippendale.
Online - https://stnicholashospice.org.uk/news-community/events-listing/the-historic-homes-and-gardens-of-bury-st-edmunds/
The Hidden Gardens of Bury have long been an annual public favourite, I will look back to look forward as I unravel Bury's horticultural tre...
Online - https://stnicholashospice.org.uk/news-community/events-listing/the-historic-homes-and-gardens-of-bury-st-edmunds/
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Long before Mendel’s work was known, Bory Latour-Marliac (1830-1911) engineered daring water lily couplings with consummate skill, meticulou...
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https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/beauty-and-utility-arts-and-crafts-houses-and-gardens-0
The course will examine the material outcomes in every sense of the Arts and Crafts Movement, founded on rural and historic ideals of human ...
https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/beauty-and-utility-arts-and-crafts-houses-and-gardens-0
https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/fatal-attraction-the-darker-side-of-plants-0
According to Lucretius What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. The course will examine classic cases such as Socrates and hemlock, ...
https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/fatal-attraction-the-darker-side-of-plants-0
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