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Tag: Welsh Historic Gardens Trust

  • Wednesday, April 21, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Unforgettable Gardens, Wales: Aberglasney, Online

    Aberglasney first captured the public imagination in 1999 when the TV series A Garden Lost in Time documented the rediscovery of the structures of a cloister garden dating from 1600, hidden and forgotten beneath a jungle of weeds. Once the archaeologists and historians had done their digging, the gardening could begin. With the new century Aberglasney has blossomed into one of Wales’ finest gardens. Around its historic core, the garden is making history with inspired and innovative planting and design, embracing sound ecological principles. Truly ‘a heritage garden of excellence’.

    This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire National Trust course of 4 sessions through Eventbrite at a cost of £16 via the link here.

    Penny David read history at Oxford and worked as a publisher’s editor in London, specializing in books on plants and gardens. In 1986 she returned to her Lampeter roots to work freelance, and soon became an active member of the Ceredigion branch of Welsh Historic Gardens Trust. She is author of A Garden Lost in Time ,about Aberglasney, two TV tie-ins accompanying Chris Beardshaw’s Hidden Gardens series and, most recently, Rooted in History: Celebrating Carmarthenshire’s Parks and Gardens (2017).

  • Monday, April 12, 1:00 pm – 12:30 pm – Other Voices in Garden History: Guns and Roses: Humphrey Repton at Warley Park, Online

    The landscape gardener Humphry Repton’s working life witnessed great social change. He disliked the new money men connected with trade and commerce, but reluctantly benefited greatly from these bankers, industrialist and merchants who profited from war and colonial contracts. The profits of empire percolated through the whole of the British economy and funded the creation of many gardens and landscapes of aspiration. This online lecture sponsored by The Gardens Trust on April 12 at 1 pm Eastern looks at Humphry Repton’s work for the Quaker gun manufacturer Samuel Galton Junior at his estate at Warley Woods, Birmingham.

    This is the first in a ten part series celebrating the voices beginning to be heard. This series of illustrated lectures will explore the impact and legacy of empire, colonialism and enslavement on western garden and landscape history. The aim is to bring back some of the voices usually absent from this history, to identify and fill gaps in our collective knowledge, and to explore new ways of engaging with the whole history of gardens, landscapes and horticulture.

    The diverse range of topics and speakers will offer a new range of perspectives on the history of gardens and landscapes and suggest more inclusive ways of presenting and interpreting their stories. The series does not aim to point fingers or to encourage hand-wringing but is more a celebration of voices starting to be heard.

    Garden, Plant and Social Historian Advolly Richmond is an independent researcher based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK. She is a trustee of the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust and she sits on the Gardens Trust Events and Education Committee. Through her Royal Horticultural Society training and qualifications she went on to achieve an MA in Garden History from the University of Bristol. A member of the Garden Media Guild, she is a television presenter on BBC Gardener’s World and a contributor to BBC Gardener’s Question Time. She lectures on a variety of 16th to 20th century subjects and is currently researching the life and achievements of the Anglo-African Victorian botanist the Reverend Thomas Birch Freeman (1809 – 1890).

    Tickets are five pounds (approximately $7), payable through Eventbrite by clicking HERE.