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.
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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March 17th, 2010
Sandy Haynes writes:
In 1777 R. Baldwin of Pater-Noster Row, London published a guide book to the three great West Midland gardens of the mid-18th century entitled Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Envil and The Leasowes with critical remarks and Observations on the Modern Taste in Gardening by Joseph Heely. In an Advertisement in the [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Niall Manning writes:
Charles Jenk's 'Life Mounds" from the drive at Jupiter Artland, on the approach to Bonnington House (photo by Christopher Dingwall)
The first encounter with Jupiter Artland is dramatic: soon after passing through the front gates, the driveway winds through the Charles Jencks landform ‘Life Mounds’. On arrival at the house we were welcomed by [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Alix Wilkinson writes:
The dome of the central chamber in Sapierdarena's grotto showing the transformations from Ovid (photo by Charles Boot)
The GHS tour to ‘The Two Rivieras’ organized by Robert Peel and Charles Boot, visited an amazing grotto created by Galeazzo Alessi (1512–72), in a garden belonging to nuns in Sampierdarena, west of Genoa. Professor Lauro [...]
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March 17th, 2010
Dr Jill Raggett (Reader in Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Writtle College) reports on the GHS Tour of the Gardens and Landscapes of Roberto Burle Marx in March 2009.
This is a personal account of the tour and reflects her experiences and reactions as one member of a party fortunate enough to travel to Brazil, not [...]
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March 17th, 2010
John Thompson writes:
The spaces around the buildings of the South Bank Exhibition provided the opportunity for innovative ideas of Landscape Design to be tried out. A formal Beaux Art approach based on the axial cross avenue, the round-point, and vista, was the method previously favoured for exhibitions. The South Bank represented a complete departure from [...]
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March 14th, 2010
Originally published in micro-news 81a (June 2008)
Greenwich Park proposed as Olympics Equestrian Venue
Plan of Greenwich Park, c.1675–80, showing much of the structure still visible in today’s park (Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge)
It has come to our notice that the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), the body charged by the Government to ‘deliver’ [...]
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March 14th, 2010
Nigel Neil wites:
Dr Neil’s Garden, which some GHS members visited after the AGM & Summer Conference in 2007, has been called Edinburgh’s Secret Garden. Lying beside a twelfth-century Kirk, where the lower slopes of Arthur’s Seat meet Duddingston Loch, this beautiful place of artistic, literary, and spiritual inspiration is the result of the imagination, and [...]
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March 14th, 2010
Amber Hare writes:
In a period perhaps best characterized by social and economic pandemonium, one must not only prepare for the impending havoc, but also take a moment to savor that delightful quiet preceding any storm worth a salt. With this in mind, there is no time like the present to dip one’s toes in the [...]
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March 14th, 2010
Kate Harwood wites:
Hardwick Park just outside Sedgefield, County Durham is rising from its dereliction towards its former splendour and has many parallels with Painshill in Surrey, from the fate of its owner to the meticulous archival and archaeological research undertaken before restoration was even attempted. The progress over the last four or five years has [...]
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February 7th, 2010
Anthony du Gard Pasley at his 80th birthday party in August last year (photo by Tom Mabbott)
Anthony du Gard Pasley, who died on 2 October 2009, was above all a garden designer, but he was also a landscape architect, lecturer, teacher, author, garden judge, restorer of old houses and a confirmed Scotsman. Indeed he died [...]
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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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