Lecture Programme for 2008

Venue: Tenants Hall, Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire

 

Sunday 13th. January, at 2.30 pm         Four hundred years of Cheshire Gardens by Ed Bennis, Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Art & Design, Manchester Metropolitan University.

With more gardens open to the public per head of population than any other county in Britain, Cheshire is primed for its own “Year of Gardens” in 2008

 

Sunday 24th. February, 2.30 pm           The Quinta Arboretum by Rhod Taylor, Curator, The Quinta Arboretum,

The Quinta is one of the twenty three Cheshire “Gardens of Distinction” for 2008.

 

Sunday 16th. March at 12 noon for 12.30 pm Luncheon.

                                          At 2.30 pm        Summer in the Arctic by Rosie Sheward, TGS sponsored student.

Tatton Garden Society has a duty and purpose as a registered charity to ‘further the education of the public’. In 2007, we sponsored a student attending Helsby School who had been selected from 1000 applicants to join an expedition to Disko Island off the west coast of Greenland to study the effects of climate change on glacial environments. Rosie who is now in the 6th Form has undertaken to give a talk to the Society who we trust will give generous support to this remarkable young woman.

 

Tuesday 15th. April.  At 7.15 pm, TGS Annual General Meeting.

                                          At 8.00 pm       Carl Linnaeus, The Grand Old Man Of Botany by John Edmondson, Head of Science, National Museums, Liverpool and Vice Chairman of Cheshire Gardens Trust.

 

Sunday 26th October at 2.30 pm           Crocosmias Through the Ages by John Foley, son of Peter Foley of Holden Clough Nursery, Bolton-by-Bowland.

The Autumn lectures are by father and son from one of the oldest nurseries in the North West. Both lectures will feature live plant material as well as slides and feature a wonderful array of plants. Following the lectures there will be plants available for purchase, many of which will have been used to illustrate the talks. Also orders from the nursery catalogue can be collected on the day by prior arrangement. Tel: 01200 447615 or e-mail: enquiries@holdencloughnursey.co.uk.

 

Sunday 16th November, 2.30 pm        Winter Colour in the Garden by Peter Foley, nurseryman and owner of Holden Clough Nursery, Bolton-by-Bowland.

 

Enquiries  to: Tatton Garden Society, Telephone 01477 537698

 

(e-mail: tattongardensociety@hotmail.com)