Draw up a chair for The Gardens Trust’s new series featuring favorite gardens by some of our most popular contributors. Week One on November 19 will be led by Caroline Holmes. Primarily a garden historian, Caroline describes herself as academic, but not dry; informative and amusing – as Nietzsche wrote ‘we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by laughter.’ She’s the author of 12 books and a speaker who has appeared on every continent except Antarctica.

Her earliest influences were European, especially French, and she finds one of life’s great pleasures is dropping into another language and the joy of exploring the underlying culture. Traveling around the world, often alone, provides unexpected discoveries; hence her choice of gardens putting on a show in tropical, sunny or cool climates – who are the designers and artists, who are the fans? Around these planets are satellites of botanical friendship, plant hunting and invention. Not always alone, heady scents and clever designs are best shared. This ticket LINK is for this individual session and costs £8, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 4 sessions at a cost of £28 via the link here. (Gardens Trust members £6 or £21). Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 2 weeks) will be sent shortly afterwards.

©Caroline Holmes