The Bucks Gardener
The Bucks Gardener Issue 26 The Newsletter of the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Autumn 2007 OUR SPRING TALKS SERIES, 2008 All talks will take place as usual in the Power House at After working in the Information Technology industry for 25 Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury. This year’s series, our eleventh, years, in the UK and in the US, Australia, Egypt and Norway, takes a new look at the development of the English Landscape Caroline Dalton has returned to academia to pursue a lifelong style of gardening, arguably England’s greatest contribution interest in garden history, and completed the MA course at to world culture. The three speakers look at the subject from Bristol University in 2006. She is now working on a PhD, again differing viewpoints, and the whole will make up a stimulating at Bristol, entitled ‘The Gardens of The Kit Cat Club’. She has and exciting new overview of the subject, a mini-symposium in taught on the MA Garden History course at Bristol, and has three parts. written a report on the evolution of the landscape at Newark Park Gloucestershire for the National Trust. Tim Richardson The Arcadian Friends: John Phibbs Inventing the English Landscape Garden Planting as Architecture 2.30pm, Saturday 26 January 2.30pm, Saturday 15 March Tim Richardson discusses the birth of the English landscape John Phibbs asks how far one can analyse landscape by the same garden, specifically his suggestion that it began with the newly principles as those used in architecture, and what a Gothic (as established English and Dutch politicians of the 1680s, making opposed to a classical) planting might be; are garden features more naturalistic gardens as an expression of support for William themselves Gothic or not? And if so, should one call them Whig of Orange.
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