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MONDAY 6TH MAY - REPTON REVEALED

WARLEY WOODS - designed for everyone
BANK HOLIDAY EVENT

 

Join us for a morning of activities at YOUR Humphry Repton designed park!

 

Activities take place in the Padgham Room, at the Pavilion and in the Meadow.

 

• Guided Repton walks, 18th Century toys and games

• Watercolour landscape art

•Treee measuring and aging

• Pebble painting, drawing

• Humphrey Repton exhibition

• Bring a picnic

• Cafe open

 

More at https://www.warleywoods.org.uk/event/repton-revealed

 

 

 

 

How Green Is My Valley: Gardens and Industry in South Wales

 

WHGT 30th Anniversary Weekend – 10 to 12 May 2019
Angel Hotel,15 Cross St, Abergavenny, NP7 5EN

Explore the ornamental landscapes developed in the midst of the industrial revolution in South-east Wales, which today can be enjoyed for recreation. Garden Historian Dianne Long, specialising in Georgian industrialists’ landscapes, will lead the exploration of the ornamental landscapes developed by the industrial entrepreneurs.

 

Full details and booking can be found at www.whgt.wales.

 

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

 


 

 

 

A NEW HOME FOR PARKS AND GARDENS UK WITH HESTERCOMBE GARDENS TRUST

 

Parks and Gardens UK is entering an exciting phase in its development at its new home with the Hestercombe Gardens Trust.  In September 2016 Parks and Gardens UK with Hestercomble Gardens Trust received £97,900 from the HLF tosecure the future of the Parks and Gardens UK database and website of historic designed landscapes.

 

For more details, please see the website www.parksand gardens.org

 

THE COUNTY GARDENS TRUST FORUM
 
The Gardens Trust has just launched a brand new online discussion group: the County Gardens Trust Forum. This is intended as an easy-to-use platform for CGTs to share ideas, experiences, questions and problems and to network with other CGTs. It takes seconds to register and there are clear and simple instructions on how to read and comment on posts. Follow the link on the home page of the Gardens Trust’s website (see LINKS above). Please note that the new Forum will replace the Historic Landscape Project’s email discussion group, LeapTheHaha, which will be closed down in due course.

 

How Caple Court © Jane Patton

 

 

Croome Landscape Park © Robert Anderson

 

 

 

 

Whitfield Court from the park by Joshua Cristall