Dr. David Marsh and The Gardens Trust present some thoughts on the origins of the English obsession with gardening, online, on October 20.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the English are obsessed with gardening. Much less clear is when this obsession started. Was it with Gertrude Jekyll, Capability Brown, or William Kent? This talk argues that it much earlier than you probably think and for reasons that you probably haven’t considered. And what’s it all got to do with Katherine of Aragon, Dr Faustus and mass immigration? There’s only one way of finding out!

This ticket is for this individual session and costs £8 (Gardens Trust members £6 ) Register through Eventbrite UK HERE.

Ticket holders can join the session live and/or view the recording until 3 November .

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 until 3 November) will be sent shortly afterwards.

Dr David Marsh was awarded his PhD in 2005 for a study of the ‘Gardens and Gardeners of Later-Stuart London’ and has been lecturing and supervising research in Garden History ever since. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and was co-course director for their MA in Garden History. A trustee of the Gardens Trust from 2016-2023, he helped set up and run the Trust’s online lecture programme and is the author of a weekly blog about garden history. Illustration courtesy of The Nature of Shakespeare.