Agenda
Here are the latest news articles from the GHS. A roundup of what’s going on in garden history, parks and gardens.
February 7th, 2010
Members will have been saddened to hear of the death of Anthony du Gard Pasley on 3 October 2009.
He was a long-standing member of the Society; a garden designer and landscape architect, lecturer, author and a judge of gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show. A full obituary will appear in our next GHS NEWS 85 [...]
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January 6th, 2010
The Garden History Society has launched its Sixth Annual Essay Prize, with a new, later entry date to enable students to work on their submissions over the Easter holidays. Full details and entry forms are on our Essay Prize page.
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September 16th, 2009
Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset comprises three heritage gardens from different periods: a Georgian Landscape; Victorian Terrace and Shrubbery; and the famous Edwardian formal gardens, designed by Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens. All three gardens have been subject to a major Heritage Lottery Funded restoration programme over the last five years. This [...]
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April 9th, 2009
On 22 January, Rachel Hill of the Environment Agency presented the current stage in the development of the Thames Estuary 2100 study at Chiswick Pier House in West London.
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April 9th, 2009
In recent times there has been a revival of interest in old varieties of fruit trees (note the popularity and success of the GHS Fruit Study Day last November). During the late nineteenth century too, for instance in and around the county of Herefordshire, where there was growing concern about the poor state of many of the orchards.
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April 9th, 2009
Noguchi was one of the most significant modern sculptors and garden makers of the 20th century.
He was moved by the spiritual simplicity of stones and garden making in Japan, and this was an enduring influence throughout his life and work.
On searching for the meaning of sculpture he said: “This I had found in the rocks [...]
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April 9th, 2009
“Without a library and archive at its heart a learning institution becomes no more than a trade union for its members.”
Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architectural History, University of Dundee.
With this phrase, Professor McKean defines the impact on a learned institution should it be separated from its cultural heritage, and specifically what could happen to [...]
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April 9th, 2009
Park-led regeneration involves major investment, so one of the first questions tends to be where does the money come from? Elizabeth Goodfellow Zagoroff looked at parks in New York and Boston before focusing on the Millennium Park, Chicago.
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April 9th, 2009
The bloom that seduced a Queen, and dazzled one of the most sophisticated royal courts in history with its heady exotic scent, delicate fringed petals and striking colours, is an essential component in the scheme to recreate the Elizabethan garden at Kenilworth Castle. A search is on to find carnation varieties that could have been grown by gardeners in the 16th century; thus an appeal to gardeners to find them.
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April 9th, 2009
In 1975 a ‘Tudor’ garden was created at Kenilworth, based on Sir William Dugdale’s plan of 1656. Since then the advance of garden archeological techniques has meant that a much more authentic recreation of the original garden is now possible.
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April 2nd, 2009
The Garden History Society in Scotland Conservation Trust is a Scottish Charity (Scottish charity number SC034618) constituted under a Declaration of Trust and granted recognition as a charity on 24 August 2003.
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April 1st, 2009
Once again all of Garden History will soon be back in print. Thanks to some of the benefits of modern technology, and our relationship with JSTOR, whose very high quality scans we have been able to make use of, it is now possible to produce very small batches of those issues that we have run out of.
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January 5th, 2009
The Garden History Society announces its fifth annual essay prize.
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January 3rd, 2009
The 2008 GHS essay prize was won by Florence Clarke.
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December 1st, 2008
The Garden History Society is concerned to hear that on 4th November the Landscape Institute announced that it proposed to close the library and archive at its London headquarters near Oxford Circus.
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