Daily Archives: January 13, 2024

Monday, February 5, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern – The Gardens and Green Spaces of Early Modern London, Online

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London today is one of the greenest cities in the world but was it always so? This London Parks & Gardens Trust online talk on February 5 at 1 pm will explore the origins and changing uses of the city’s gardens and green spaces - parks, churchyards, commercial gardens as well as private gardens – during the 16th to 18th centuries,  to show they were not just places to hunt, grow food or bury the dead but places of  elaborate displays of wealth and status for the rich, a source of pleasure and recreation for the less well-to-do, and a place of very hard work for the garden laborers who toiled in them.

Dr David Marsh researches, lectures and writes on any and all aspects of garden history, and helps organise the Garden History seminar at London University’s Institute of Historical Research. He is a trustee of the Gardens Trust and is the founder and inspiration behind their  extensive on-line lecture program. For the last ten years he has also written a weekly garden history blog for them which you can find at  thegardenstrust.blog – he has written over 400 posts so far! £5.00 The ticket entitles you to attend the online lecture as well as accessing a recording of the event for a week after. Register at https://bookwhen.com/londongardenstrust#focus=ev-smpl-20240205180000

Saturday, January 27, 10:00 am – 11:30 am Eastern – Reimagined Garden, Online

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In this Berkshire Botanical Garden online class, learn about garden makeovers from Deborah Chud’s portfolio on January 27 from 10 to 11:30 a.m online. Following a brief discussion of the features of wild landscapes fundamental to naturalistic landscape design, she takes you inside her solutions to garden dilemmas. The specific dilemmas addressed in this class involve: replacement of traditional shrubs, integration of a valued backdrop and existing trees, and whether there can be too much of a good thing in a garden.  $15 for BBG members, $20 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/reimagined-garden-online

Deborah Chud is a retired Massachusetts physician turned garden maker, consultant and educator. Her six years of research on New Perennial  gardens, including those at New York City’s High Line, Chicago’s Lurie Garden, the Oudolf Meadow at Delaware Botanic Gardens, and Oudolf Garden Detroit, generated a comprehensive existing database of New Perennial plant combinations and led to the creation of her own highly unusual New Perennial garden. In the fall of 2020, she presented her work as part of “Piet Oudolf: How Does He Do It?”– an international event organized by Piet Oudolf’s co-author, Noel Kingsbury, under the aegis of Garden Masterclass (gardenmasterclass.org).