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Zoom Talk – Dr Louise Crawley

Thursday 27 March 2025This event has now passed. Title: ‘Free from all walls’: the evolution of the designed landscape at Raynham Hall, Norfolk c.1700-1735. Abstract: Raynham Hall is a substantial 17C mansion in the northwest of Norfolk. The home of ‘Turnip’ Townshend, Raynham has been acknowledged for its significance in the history of agricultural improvement, but recentContinue reading “Zoom Talk – Dr Louise Crawley”

Live Talk: Prof. John Parker

Prof. John Parker will talk about the bristlecone pine and other trees following coffee and a book sale. Thursday 13 February 2025This event has now passed Title Trees today: increasing delight, increasing despair. Abstract As well as being an expert on John Stevens Henslow, founder of the new Cambridge University Botanic Garden, John Parker hasContinue reading “Live Talk: Prof. John Parker”

Garden Tour and Social Event: Abbots Ripton Hall

This event has now passedBy kind permission of Lord and Lady De Ramsey Abbots Ripton Hall is a late 18C/ early 19C country house, set in eight acres of garden, including herbaceous borders, an old-fashioned rose circle, a Mediterranean grey border, rare trees, follies designed by Peter Foster, closely-mown lawns, a river and a five-acreContinue reading “Garden Tour and Social Event: Abbots Ripton Hall”

Guided Tour – Bridge End Garden, Saffron Walden

This event has now passed Bridge End Garden was created around 1840 by Francis Gibson, a local Quaker businessman who also built the Fry Art Gallery. Francis’ daughter Elizabeth married Lewis Fry of Bristol and, in 1918, the Fry family leased the Garden to the local council. Over time, Bridge End Garden fell into neglectContinue reading “Guided Tour – Bridge End Garden, Saffron Walden”

Live Talk: Dr Twigs Way

Left: ‘Watering Place, Juan Fernandez’ from Maria Callcott’s book ‘Journal of a Residence in Chile’ (1824). This event has now passed Title ‘I Narrowly Avoided Becoming a Slattern’: An exploration of female plant-collectors Abstract From cross-dressing sailors to ‘diplomatic wives’ and footloose spinster artists, women have collected plants from across the continents.  Rarely setting offContinue reading “Live Talk: Dr Twigs Way”

Zoom Talk – NT archaeologist Mark Newman

This event has now passed Title: Finding lost gardens at Beningbrough Hall, while making a modern one. Abstract: The garden history of Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, one time home to the Bourchier family, presents an enigma, despite the the hall’s significance as one of the finest baroque houses in England. In 2024 the second garden (in aContinue reading “Zoom Talk – NT archaeologist Mark Newman”

Journal Discussion Group

This event has now passed. Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust is launching a new initiative – a Journals Group. The idea is to meet quarterly to discuss an article from the recent issue of Garden History. To cut the opening ribbon, we’ll be digging over Robert Marnock’s retirement project: Alexandra Park, Hastings, 1876-82. ’Superior to any parkContinue reading “Journal Discussion Group”