Essex Gardens Trust, in association with The Gardens Trust, presents an online talk with Timothy Walker on Saturday 17th April @ 5.30 pm Eastern Time. Tickets £5, available through Eventbrite by clicking HERE.

The University of Oxford can lay claim to the oldest botanic garden in Britain, now in its 400th year. Since 1621, the Oxford Botanic Garden has stood on the banks of the River Cherwell in the centre of Oxford. It has evolved from a collection of medicinal herbs for seventeenth century physicians into the most compact, diverse collection of plants in the world, where 4,500 species can be seen in its 4½ acres, which support teaching and research at Oxford and beyond. This glorious garden is surrounded by a high stone wall, set off by a lovely gateway, and within which there are many ornamental trees and shrubs as well as rectangular ‘order’ beds and a wealth of other features.

Timothy Walker is a former director of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum, having started as General Foreman. He is a lecturer, botanist, gardener, Fellow of the Linnaean Society, and author of Plant Conservation; Plants: A very short Introduction; and the RHS handbook on Euphorbias.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and a link to the recorded session, available for one week, will be sent shortly afterwards.