With warmer days and our gardens beginning to bloom, our new look e-newsletter highlights the start of this year’s events programme.
Newsletter No. 61 October 2021
From the Chair
With sunny Autumn days upon us, we look forward to the upcoming Jellicoe lecture series and Surrey Unforgettable Gardens lecture series, both in the calendar for October. The glorious colours will be on show for the garden visit to Ramster Gardens and a fascinating piece reminds us of the delights of Winkworth Arboretum.
Newsletter No. 60 April 2021
Newsletter No. 59 October 2020
Behind the Scenes of the Kennedy Memorial at Runnymede
by Annabel Downs, CMLI FSGD (Landscape Institute Archivist 1995 - 2009)
We hope to be reconvening in 2021at RHS Wisley for our Geoffrey Jellicoe Study Day, when Annabel Downs will be one of our eminent guest speakers sharing her important research into Jellicoe’s Kennedy Memorial at Runnymede. Her work has recently been instrumental in the addition of the iconic Surrey landscape of the Kennedy Memorial to the Historic England, Register of Parks and Gardens.
Newsletter No. 58 April 2020
Chair’s Note
When I addressed you through my Chair’s Report and in person at the AGM in December, with enthusiastic talk of our exciting plans for 2020, little could we have contemplated what this year would actually bring. With my editorial hat on for the newsletter I am sure you will appreciate that this has been a difficult one to put together and I hope you will forgive the delay in bringing it to you.
Newsletter No. 57 November 2019
We look forward to welcoming many of you to our AGM on 14 December 2019 followed by a lecture and Christmas buffet lunch.
Once again, we will be at The Old Barn Hall, Great Bookham, KT23 3PQ and proceedings start at 11.30 am.
Our guest speaker is the hugely respected garden historian, Michael Symes, who will be talking to us on ‘The Allure of the English Landscape Garden’, the subject matter of his new book, The English Landscape Garden: A Survey, copies of which will be available to buy.