Mary's Mosaics - new blog by David Marsh If you love reading about garden history, follow trustee David Marsh's Gardens Trust blog and receive a fascinating and well-researched article to enjoy every weekend. His latest post is Mary's Mosaics, about Mary Delaney, gardener and artist, celebrated for her intricate paper flowers: "In her early 70s, Mary began assembling what was to become  her most celebrated work, the Flora Delanica. This was an extraordinary detailed and accurate  florilegium of nearly 1000  complex and beautiful images  of flowers and plants which she called ‘paper mosaiks’...she wrote "I have invented a new way of imitating flowers".... Read more of David's latest GT blog

MBEs for Steffie Shields & John Phibbs We are happy to announce that Steffie Shields, Vice President of the Gardens Trust, was recognised with an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Artist, writer and landscape expert Steffie has been a driving force at the Gardens Trust, and we’re proud to celebrate with her .... Read more

Gardens Trust Events  Beyond 'Capability' Brown and Halswell House  June 21: Beyond 'Capability' Brown: What next for Garden History? is the challenging subject of Dr Oliver Cox's  upcoming Robert Penson Lecture at St John's College, Oxford. The event is free, with a drinks reception. More info available here.  July 16: The Gardens Trust leads a visit to Halswell House. This is a rare opportunity for a detailed look at Halswell's wonderful park and gardens developed by Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte, situated in the village of Goathurst in Somerset. Booking recommended.   For more events, see the Garens Trust website

The Gardens Trust’s Annual Conference 2018

Birmingham - Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 September

 

*** BOOKING IS NOW OPEN ***

Our conference this year is adding to the rising profile the Gardens Trust is building for itself in Birmingham through the Historic Landscapes Project ‘Meet-Ups’, the extension of the GT’s lecture programme in the city and this year’s series of introductory courses on garden history run at Highbury Hall and the University’s Winterbourne House and Garden. 

 

Full details of the programme, accommodation options, cost, booking, payment and travel are on pages 19 to 22 of the attached pdf, these details are also on the Gardens Trust website at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-garden-trust-annual-conference-2018-tickets-43887226877, with a link to the booking website, Eventbrite.  Please note conference booking closes on Friday 10 August.

 

The Gardesn Trust May Newsletter is now available at http://thegardenstrust.org