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  • Tuesday, March 11, 3:00 pm Eastern – Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking, Online

    The shape of London’s townscape has been heavily influenced by the work of the capital’s ‘great estates’. NLA’s recent publication Great Estates: Models for Modern Placemaking, in collaboration with RIBA Publishing, discusses the profound impact of enduring land custodians—families, trusts, charities, foundations, livery companies and others—who have meticulously overseen vast areas across the centuries. 

    Their long-term approach to investment, development and management has informed the emergence of new large-scale and mixed-uses areas such as King’s Cross, Canary Wharf and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Sarah Yates, main author of the new book and former lead Researcher at NLA, explains the key principles and approaches of this unique model of place stewardship and how it has remained highly relevant and adaptable today.  £8.00 Register for this March 11 lecture, which will be available for an additional week following the talk, at https://londongardenstrust.org/lecture-details/?event=great-estates-online

  • Tuesday, January 14, 2:00 pm Eastern – Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden, and the Beautification of Britain, Online

    Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is little understood how millions across the nation developed an obsession with their colorful plots of land. Michael Gilson will explore the history of this development and how, despite their stereotype as symbols of dull, middle-class conformity, these new open spaces were seen as a means to bring about social change in the early twentieth century. Michael Gilson restores to the story a remarkable but long-forgotten figure, Richard Sudell, who spent a lifetime ‘evangelizing’ that the garden be in the vanguard of progress towards a new egalitarian society with everyday beauty at its centre. £8.00 The webinar will be available for one week following the live presentation on January 14 at 2 pm Eastern. Register at https://londongardenstrust.org/lecture-details/?event=Online-Behind-Privet-Hedge

  • Wednesday, May 25, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Unforgettable Gardens: Gardening4Health – a GP Perspective, Online

    The Gardens Trust is delighted to partner once again with London Gardens Trust, this time to look at some slightly more unusual Unforgettable Gardens which highlight the value of gardening with all the senses. This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, through Eventbrite by clicking HERE. 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 one week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

    Richard Claxton talks about his experience of Gardening for his own wellbeing – as well as the way it can benefit his patients, and the growing momentum of Therapeutic Horticulture across the UK.

    This event is being live streamed from the Francis Holland School near Sloane Square. Please see the London Gardens Trust website [here] if you would prefer this option (tickets available separately).

    Richard Claxton is a GP in Tonbridge, Kent, and a keen gardener. He is training in Garden Design – and has a special interest in designing gardens with the health needs of their users, both in residential and healthcare settings. He is passionate about the therapeutic benefits of green and horticultural activities, and curates a web-based directory of Therapeutic Gardens within the UK.

  • Wednesday, May 18, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Unforgettable Gardens: Edibles and the World Food Garden, Online

    The Gardens Trust is delighted to partner once again with London Gardens Trust, this time to look at some slightly more unusual Unforgettable Gardens which highlight the value of gardening with all the senses. This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, through Eventbrite by clicking HERE. 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 one week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

    Paul Kettel invites you to join him for a taster tour of the RHS’s new World Food Garden – where you can immerse yourself in a palette of edible delights. The Garden, which opened in 2021 is already proving to be very popular with garden visitors. It demonstrates the cultivation of new and unusual vegetables, fruit, flowers and herbs, some of them exotic that will inspire the amateur gardener to grow at home. Paul will explore new tastes that can be found in the produce grown in the World Garden as some may become more commonly grown.

    Paul Kettell, formerly the Royal Horticultural Society’s School’s Development Officer, is now the Edibles Team Leader at the RHS Garden Wisley in charge of the new World Food Garden.

    Copyright: Oliver Dixon/RHS

  • Wednesday, May 4, 1:00 pm – Medieval Splendour: London’s Palace Gardens and Royal Beasts, Online

    Would you expect to find a dragon in a Richmond Garden? A greyhound on a pole in Westminster? Or a griffin lurking in a hedge in Bexley? Probably not: but all those beasts and many more lived in the gardens of Tudor royal palaces and aristocratic mansions. Find out how and why in this lecture by David Marsh which will explore one of the most visually spectacular aspects of late 15th and 16th England and their legacy in gardens since then.

    Dr. David Marsh researches, lectures and writes on any and all aspects of garden history, and helps organize the Garden History seminar at London University’s Institute of Historical Research. He is a trustee of the Gardens Trust and organizes their extensive on-line program. For the last eight years he has also written a weekly garden history blog for them which you can find at thegardenstrust.blog

    This talk is the first in our series on Wednesdays presented in association with London Gardens Trust £5 each or all 4 for £16. Register through Eventbrite HERE. 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 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

  • Tuesday, April 12, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern Time – From Royal Hunting Ground to Parks for People and Nature: A Celebration and History of London’s Parks, Online

    This really is a fascinating insight into the history of one of the greatest ever institutions – the British public park. Many Americans have enjoyed them at some time in their lives but what do we really know about them? Their origins? Did they really start in the Victorian period or do they go even further back? This London Gardens Trust talk on April 12 illustrates their origins, talks about the need for parks, the Victorian heyday, what makes a great park, with examples of lodges, lakes, bandstands, fountains and floral displays, to their great decline in the sixties and seventies. However, the subsequent revival has led to a major shift in interest in our parks and once again we are much in love with them. This is also a highly illustrative talk accompanied by slides with examples of parks from across London and other parts of the UK and their designs and architecture. This is a particularly popular talk and always goes down well as we can nearly always recount our own experiences with our own local park.

    Paul Rabbitts is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and Royal Society of Arts, parks historian, Head of Parks, Heritage and Culture at Watford Borough Council, public speaker, and chair of the Parks Management Association.  He is also the author of over 25 books, that include the history of public parks, The Royal Parks, the architect Decimus Burton, bandstands as well as books on local architecture in Amberley Publishing’s ’50 Buildings’ series on Britain’s towns and cities. 

    £6.00. Book HERE.