September 10th 2024
The Gardens Trust continues its 'A History of Gardens' online course, with this 2nd series of 5 online talks, which 'will examine how gardens developed during the 17th century. We will explore how exotic plants from around the world started to appear in European gardens, and were captured in botanical art, before the tumultuous impact of the English civil wars on gardens and gardening from the 1640s'.
There will be opportunities to discuss issues with speakers after each talk, and short reading lists for further exploration.
The talks begin this September with the first lecture titled 'Early 17th-Century Plants and Gardens' – with Dr David Marsh.
"While Continental designers, engineers and sculptors transformed the structure and style of the English garden, plants began to take centre stage. They became desirable consumer items, eagerly sought out and highly prized as European exploration opened up the world. At the same time the Worshipful Company of Gardeners chartered by James I helped establish horticulture not only as a profession covering garden making, market gardening and the first proper plant nurseries but as an important contributor to the national economy."
September 10th, 2024
10:00 am – 11:30 am (BST)
Online only
Tickets:
£8 each
(Gardens Trust members = £6 each)
For full information/to check current ticket availability/book for this talk, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-history-of-gardens-2-early-17th-century-plants-and-gardens-tickets-904398639677
Alternatively, (whilst available) tickets to all five talks can be purchased by visiting the following link, full information at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-history-of-gardens-2-tickets-904336473737