Saturday 18 March 2023 from 10:00am-3:30pm
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Garden Game-Changers: People and Climate
This year’s theme examines arguably the two strongest impacts on garden design: over the past 200 years the game-changer was people, their tastes and interests, but in the 21C it is going to be climate change. We are sure you will enjoy lively discussion with our eminent speakers and an opportunity to relax over a buffet lunch.
Outline Programme
 | National Trust’s East of England archaeologist, Angus Wainwright, will review the most up-to-date research on landscape and garden evolution at Wimpole Hall. His working title reveals his take on the impact of this large estate on the generations that have ‘owned’ it – Wimpole: a monster park and the people it ate. |
 | Dr Jemima Hubberstey, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Oxford University, will share her research on elite women and intellectual life on a country estate in Lady Grey’s picturesque Eye will discover many particulars worthy of your Travelling Pocket-Book, covering women’s travel accounts and their engagement with garden design in the 18C. |
 | Dr Gin Warren, enthusiastic garden historian and member of CGT’s Council of Management, will showcase the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s appraisal of plants and climate change, drawn from her recent study of the RGBE’s short distance-learning course. |
 | Dr Jan Woudstra, Reader in Landscape History and Theory at Sheffield University, will review Climate change and historic gardens – the situation in the UK. Jan will examine how we should manage our heritage landscapes, and how can we make our parks and gardens more resilient in the 21st century without compromising our heritage values. |
Members £25, non-members £30, to include coffee and a buffet lunch
If possible, please pay by BACS transfer to Cambridgeshire County Gardens Trust,
sort code 20-29-68 a/c 30347639, quoting your name as reference and email admin@cambridgeshiregardenstrust.org.uk. If necessary, cheques payable to Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust may be sent to Jane Sills, The Willows, Ramsey Road, Ramsey Forty Foot PE26 2XN. To assist catering, please book by Monday 14 March.
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