FOLAR and The Gardens Trust are delighted to present a series of weekly online talks reviewing the 21 recently registered Historic England post war landscapes and gardens and their designers.

The purpose of the series is to focus attention on the ideas, ingenuity and quality of each of these C20 designs. With a brilliant array of speakers including the original designers, academics, landscape architects, historians and researchers plus further insights from head gardeners, residents, site managers and users, we aim to reveal more detail about the design, the designer, how the landscape/garden works, how it has endured over the years, and what its future is like even with Historic England (HE) listing. We also want to discuss availability and access to drawings and papers related to the projects.

These landscapes and gardens range from private gardens to vast reclamation projects. Throughout the UK many C20 designed gardens and landscapes are at great risk from being unnoticed or under-valued, or they are maintained without any awareness of the original concept, such that sites get swept away, ‘improved’ or built over. We hope that this series of talks will help to change this.

The series runs from 7 September 2021 to 29 March 2022, grouped by subject and with a week’s break between topics. [and nothing in December] All talks are on Tuesdays from 18.00-19.15 GMT (1 pm in Boston)

This ticket costs £84 for the entire series of 21 talks or you may purchase a ticket through Eventbrite for individual talks, costing £5 via the links found HERE By clicking through you will also see the complete list of gardens and speakers. The broad groupings are New Town Parks, Commercial Landscapes (including the Cadbury Factory), Public Housing, Semi-Public Gardens, Private Housing, and Private Gardens (Beth Chatto’s Garden is one). A recording link will be sent following each session so you may listen at your convenience for one week after the live talk.