- Winter lunch
Sunday 20th of January 2019
- Thenford House Arboretum and Garden
Saturday 16th of February 2019
- Spring Lecture & AGM
Thursday 14th of March 2019
Sunday Afternoon Lecture & Tea - Oxford College Gardens
Sunday 22nd of April 2018 (2.00pm)
Sunday Afternoon Lecture and Tea, Hoby Village Hall, Leicestershire, LE14 3DT
"Oxford College Gardens" by Tim Richardson
Some of us have heard him speak on other occasions and agreed he would make an excellent speaker for the LRGT and particularly for this afternoon event. He has chosen to speak on Oxford College gardens, subject of a recent publication, but also relevant to us as we were not successful in visiting these gardens on our trip to Oxford.
In his presentation, Tim’s elegant, authoritative analysis combines with glorious photographs to reveal the full interest and charm of Oxford's college gardens. The gardens of Oxford's thirty or so colleges are surprisingly varied in style, age and size, ranging from the ancient mound in the middle of New College to the fine modernist design which is St Catherine's. The eighteenth-century landscape school is represented in the magnificent acreage of Worcester, while the twentieth-century vogue for rock gardening is reflected at St John's. Founded in 1621, the university's Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Britain, holds one of the most diverse plant collections in the world, and has been a source of inspiration for writers from Lewis Carroll to Philip Pullman. From the bijou corners of Corpus Christi to the wide open lawns of Trinity, Oxford's gardens are full of surprises and hidden corners - not least the fellows' or masters' gardens, which are usually kept resolutely private, but can be enjoyed here.
Tim Richardson is a garden historian and critic of contemporary landscape architecture whose published work incluldes English Gardens in the Twentieth Century, Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden and Great Gardens of America (9780711228863).He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines including the Daily Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated and Country Life. Tim was founding editor of New Eden, gardens editor of Country Life and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine. He is a trustee of The Garden History Society and serves on the gardens advisory panel of the National Trust. Tim lives in London and is an Oxford alumnus
This will be followed by afternoon tea in Hoby Village Hall. We hope for good weather this year, as Steve and Diane Horsfield have invited us to visit their garden after tea.
NB: Please do not park in the pub car park. There is on street parking available.
Cost: Friends £12.00 Guests £14.00
For more information and to reserve your place: phone Elizabeth on 0116 2705711