Agenda
News articles from the GHS membership: what’s going on in garden history, parks and gardens. They do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of the Society.
June 1st, 2011
We couldn’t let the occasion of Mavis’s 90th birthday pass without a few words. A large and joyous group gathered at Petworth on Thursday 5 May, to celebrate the long involvement Mavis has had with the Society.
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June 1st, 2011
Joy Williams from Exmouth, Devon, has been awarded an MBE for services to children. What might one ask has this to do with gardens, gardening or even garden history? Everything, as it is Joy’s work with schools for the Devon Gardens Trust that has gained her this very well deserved accolade.
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March 9th, 2011
23 April to 6 May 2010; a report by Alix Wilkinson:
The ‘land of roses and nightingales’ has been filled with gardens at least since Cyrus the Great made a garden at Pasargadae in about 550 BC. Here he had a hunting park, at the heart of which was a pleasure garden, surrounded by water channels [...]
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March 9th, 2011
October 16, 2009; a report by Fiona Grant:
2009’s Forum had the aim of exploring historical and horticultural links between walled kitchen gardens in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Susan Campbell traced the influences introduced from the continent to our shores. The vast majority of these appeared to be technologies connected with the training of [...]
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March 9th, 2011
5 to 6 September, 2009; a report by Caroline Bowdler
This study tour centred on the life and works of H. Avray Tipping (1855–1933), architectural historian and garden designer. From 1907 until his death he was Architectural Editor of Country Life; his articles on country houses and gardens were influential and widely admired. But our focus [...]
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March 9th, 2011
Rachael Stamper writes:
www.parksandgardens.ac.uk is the national web resource that provides database record information, educational articles and other resources on historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes in the United Kingdom.
Funding for the first phase, completed in November 2009, was provided by the HLF to a partnership of the Association of Gardens Trusts and the University of [...]
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March 9th, 2011
Penelope Walker writes:
Honeybees are in the news at the moment, because of colony losses in some parts of the world. In past centuries, when beekeeping was mainly a small-scale activity, the bees were kept in small straw hives called skeps, and beekeepers faced different problems. In some areas of the UK, Ireland and France, especially [...]
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March 9th, 2011
Joan Morgan and Tom La Dell write:
The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale is the largest collection of temperate fruit cultivars growing on one site in the world. Nowhere in Europe has anything comparable, and while fruit collections in America are large these are dispersed across the States with, for example, the apples in New York [...]
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March 9th, 2011
Christopher Dingwall writes:
In response to Dr Rutherford’s forum piece on Geodiversity, her question stimulated a few brain cells. In reading my response, you ought to know that I studied geology at school and as a subsidiary subject in my first year at UCL, alongside my geography degree, so have a long-standing interest in the subject. [...]
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March 9th, 2011
Sarah Rutherford, Sarah Couch, Eric Robinson write:
It is good to be able to report progress on the Geodiversity project mentioned in GHS News 85. Several members kindly responded to the request for information on this rather arcane subject including those who had studied geology at university: John Edmondson, Meg Hardie and Christopher Dingwall (see below), [...]
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March 9th, 2011
Mikhail Efimov & Julia Moshnik write:
In 2010 Monrepos Park celebrated its 250th anniversary. Located near Vyborg (the Finnish town of Wiipuri) about 250km from St Petersburg, it is the only rocky landscape park in Russia. It is a remarkable case of a dialogue between different cultures, the final result being a great example of European [...]
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March 9th, 2011
The Society is delighted to welcome Edward Fawcett as its newest vice-President. Known to most as Ted, he joined the newly formed Society in 1965 and attended its AGM & Conference in York in 1969.
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December 13th, 2010
Call for Papers: new research in garden history Graduate Symposium at Keele University
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October 13th, 2010
The Garden History Society has launched its Seventh Annual Essay Prize, with a later entry date to enable students to work on their submissions over the Easter holidays. This year’s entries can be submitted up to and including 30 April 2011. The prize is open to any student registered in a bona [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Patrick Eyres, Little Sparta Trust & New Arcadian Press, writes:
The Hortus Conclusus is the final work conceived by the Scottish poet-gardener, Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), and it has been realised posthumously. The opening in June 2009 was featured in the Scottish broadsheets, which also reported the £1.2m appeal by the Little Sparta Trust to sustain [...]
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