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March 3rd, 2010
Organised by Oxfordshire Gardens Trust.
Meet at 11am at the Falkland Arms in the centre of the village. Following on from his lecture in March, Rob Parkinson will lead a site visit to look at the designed landscape at Great Tew, followed by a pub lunch at the Falkland Arms for those who wish to stay [...]
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March 3rd, 2010
Organised by Oxfordshire Gardens Trust.
Meet at 2pm. The Head Gardener, Anne Marie Owen, will take the group round.
Tickets: members £8, guests £10. Limited to 16 people.
Further information and booking details at www.ogt.org.uk
This post was submitted by Gaelle Jolly.
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March 3rd, 2010
Dear Sirs,
I am most interested in a Victorian Fern Specialists, that was one once operating in this Parish, by the name of W. and J. Birkenhead. I have read a copy of the 1983 Journal Volumne 11.1 in which there is a feature headed “W. AND J. BIRKENHEAD ‘FERNS A SPECIALITY’ by N. [...]
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March 3rd, 2010
Oxfordshire Gardens Trust lecture
Rob Parkinson (sometime Conservation Officer for West Oxfordshire District Council) will talk about the early nineteenth-century layout and JC Loudon’s model farm experiment. To be followed by a site visit in April.
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road, Oxford. Doors open at 7.30pm for lecture at 8pm. Pay at the door: OGT members [...]
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February 11th, 2010
The Yorkshire Gardens Trust is delighted to announce its first major publication – ‘With abundance and variety: Yorkshire Gardens and Gardeners across Five Centuries’. This collection of papers, based on new research, moves from public park to private plot to palace and encounters along the way such diverse topics as delphiniums and dissent, bath houses [...]
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January 27th, 2010
On a recent garden visit here in Scotland, I was shown three rather robust putti, approximately one metre in height which would appear to be copies or casts in artificial stone. Their bases bear the clear imprint “R:VERHULST.A.I”. One of the figures has snakes coiled at his feet, the second appears to be holding a [...]
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January 19th, 2010
‘No visible means of support’ takes an interdisciplinary look at Britain in the 1950s to see if the decade produced a unique and distinctive style. The title recalls a response to the Skylon, the futuristic sculpture that epitomised the 1951 Festival of Britain; predictably, the phrase was soon applied to the nation itself. [...]
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January 12th, 2010
A new three year (fixed term) full time post has been created for a Historic Landscape Project Officer for the South East Region and working for the Association of Gardens Trusts and based at their central London office.
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October 27th, 2009
For a project that concerns the role of the US Government (Marshall Plan) and American tourists in the rebuilding of the post-war European historic landscape, I am seeking examples of historic public gardens or parks in England or western Europe. I would appreciate hearing of any examples of historic landscapes that were restored, rebuilt, or [...]
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August 26th, 2009
Roy Genders, 1913 to 1985, wrote more than dozen books about flowers, floral history and how to grow plants. In “Collecting Antique Plants” (1971) he credits R P Genders with doing the historical research.
I wonder whether that was one of his children or another relative.
Does anyone have any information about him?
Judith Taylor
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August 5th, 2009
The first issue of the Growing Heritage Newsletter has been made available for download.
It will also shortly be available on the Growing Heritage website.
The Action Plan for Conservation of Plants in Cultivation can also be found on the website, if you wish to refer back to the original Objectives and Key Actions for each Objective.
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August 5th, 2009
I am redesigning a walled veg garden built around 1740. Although I dont want to recreate a garden of that period I would like to be able to refer to and include aspects relevant to its history.
Can anyone tell me the name of this period of history (1730-50) and if possible suggest any relevant reading [...]
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April 22nd, 2009
30 members of the GHS had a fascinating trip to see the gardens and landscapes of Roberto Burle Marx in Brazil during March 2009, visiting Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Teresopolis, Sao Jose dos Campos and Brazilia. Some photographs from the trip are available at Malcolm Raggett’s Web site: and those who were on the trip [...]
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April 21st, 2009
We have recently restored the Thyme Garden at St Fagans Castle.
The Garden was first laid out around 1900.
The garden is composed of a series of flower beds divided by narrow paths made up of interlocking geometrically cut sandstone slabs with raised sandstone edgings. The inside surface of these edging stones are smooth cut while the [...]
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April 14th, 2009
I was recently in touch with Gillian Billington who wrote a book on London’s Parks and Gardens. She had said that Myatt’s Fields Park was a lost garden and had once been in Clerkenwell. Not so, I told her, it’s thriving in Camberwell and my community group was awarded £5M from a variety of sources [...]
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