February 2021
Creating RHS Bridgewater – A Garden from the Past for the Future
Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Dr Tim Upson is Director of Horticulture, Education and Communities at the RHS. A self-professed ‘hybrid’, Tim has both a botanical background from his time at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew and Cambridge University Botanic Garden and a research background from his PhD in Plant Sciences. In this talk, Tim will discuss the creation of a brand new RHS garden, RHS…
Find out more »From Renaissance Italy to Mexico, Japan, Switzerland and the UK
Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Jane Owen is an author, lecturer, journalist and TV presenter with a focus on gardens. She writes for the Old Money column of the Financial Times, delighting readers with her insights into tackling her new garden in the centre of Oxford, the contribution of gardening to the British economy and the economics of ‘grow your own’. In this talk, Jane will…
Find out more »March 2021
The Well Gardened Mind
Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. Dr Sue Stuart-Smith is a Psychiatrist and Psychologist and author of ‘The Well Gardened Mind’, a Sunday Times bestseller. She earned her degree in English Literature at Cambridge University before qualifying as a doctor and went on to become the lead clinician in psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the celebrated garden designer, and, over 30 years together,…
Find out more »Extreme Mediterranean Landscapes with Case Studies of Etna and Malta
Our Winter Lectures are back and this year you can enjoy them from the comfort of your own home. James Basson is a gardener and garden designer who specialises in drought tolerant, sustainable gardens inspired by his passion for Mediterranean landscapes. James read Garden Design for his degree, and then moved to the South of France to set up Scape Design with his wife, Helen, in 2020. Scape Design has since won numerous awards including 4 gold medals at the…
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