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Hampshire Gardens Trust Magazine Winter 2020/Spring 2021 Registered Charity No: 1165985 Hampshire Gardens Trust magazine Winter 2020/Spring 2021 Registered Charity No: 1165985 PRESIDENT Gilly Drummond OBE, DL, HON FLI, VMM CHAIRMAN Ted Wake ADMINISTRATOR Jo Bolt EDITORIAL TEAM Sally Miller, Sue Gordon DESIGN Dawn Terrey ADVERTISING managed by Jo Bolt Printed in Hampshire using materials accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council by so23print.co.uk © Hampshire Gardens Trust, 2020 Reproduction of any article in whole or in part without prior written consent is prohibited. If you are interested in Hampshire’s heritage of historic parks and gardens and are concerned about how they can be protected, if you believe that children and young people benefit from engaging with gardens and gardening, and if you know that access to green spaces is vital for the well-being of all of us, then please join us. You can visit gardens, join our Research, Education and Conservation & Development teams, or support us by becoming a member or making a donation. Membership forms and all information available from The Administrator Hampshire Gardens Trust Jermyns House, Jermyns Lane Ampfield, Romsey, SO51 0QA Tel: 01794 367752 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hgt.org.uk The Trust office is at Jermyns House, located within the Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum, by kind permission of Hampshire County Council. FRONT COVER Kim Wilkie’s designed landscape at Shawford Park, with the city of Winchester in the background. The garden and park are set in the South Downs within the Itchen water meadows, blending into the wider landscape with an intricate pattern of rills which form a unique chalk stream haven for the rare Southern Damselfly. PHOTO: Peter Douglas RIGHT: Southwick Park Garden, Kip and Knyff, 1707. Contents 2 FROM THE CHAIRMAN TED WAKE 4 SURVIVAL – OUR HISTORY WITH LANDSCAPE KIM WILKIE 6 TEAM NEWS: EDUCATION JILL WALMSLEY & RICHARD CONNELL 8 TEAM NEWS: CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT MICHAEL RICKETTS 10 TEAM NEWS: RESEARCH SALLY MILLER 12 PRIDDY’S HARD, GOSPORT PETER WILKINSON 16 DEVELOPMENT – WHY WE HATE IT AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO MAKE IT BETTER HUGH PETTER 20 WADE COURT – MARSHALL NISBET INMAN’S VICTORIAN GARDEN REVEALED JANET ASHTON 26 SOUTHWICK PARK – 900 YEARS OF CHANGING LANDSCAPE KEVIN BARTON 32 INTERVIEW GILLY DRUMMOND 34 PAGE TURNER VALERIE JOYNT 36 SO, WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO? DEE CLIFT 39 EVENTS INTRODUCTION The Hampshire Gardens Trust, through its volunteers, works in many roles: it opposes planning applications that seek to reduce our urban green spaces; it researches in depth the history and importance of an historic park or garden; it encourages the creation of gardens in schools; it can help to get a project off the ground. All these aspects are reflected in this edition of a new HGT Magazine. The shifting perspectives caused by the pandemic and our enhanced understanding of the vital human need for access to green spaces are also reflected: our Chairman has named this shift ‘The Age of Appreciation’. Our volunteers are the engine of HGT, but other organisations benefit from their energy and expertise too: ‘So, what else do you do?’ My thanks to all our contributors. The editorial and design team have enjoyed creating this magazine: we hope you enjoy reading it! Sally Miller, managing editor December 2020 2 From the Chairman Ted Wake has certainly stopped us all in our pursuit of our own Arcadia. Less tracks, and much of what we took time dashing around from A to B to for granted in our day-to-day lives C has meant we have all had more of turns out to have been a privilege a sense of place, and in many ways, that we are currently denied. There this unique opportunity to become is a degree of uncertainty that we more engaged with the garden and all find unsettling – and the question local area has been an extraordinary is, when will we be able to return blessing. So, once the pandemic dust to normal? The truth of the matter has finally settled, will this become is that none of us know when the known as the Age of Appreciation? The quest for Arcadia was something Brave New World will begin, nor that only the most privileged elite exactly what we will find when we DESIGNED TO PERSUADE could dream of in the late 17th and eventually get there. Personally, with Those who embraced the English early 18th centuries: you needed Landscape Movement weren’t political ambition and creative skills, aware of the extraordinary era and a knowledge of the latest work So, once the they were living and working in, Photo courtesy of Carrie Lees of the poets of the day would nor what influence they would certainly help – not to mention a pandemic dust has have on the future of the designed substantial budget. The Arcadian finally settled, will landscape, not only in the British ideal also aspired to demonstrate Isles but also in mainland Europe a close connection to the natural this become known and beyond. The key protagonists world and the plants and trees that created spectacular settings for grow in it. And it was at this time as the Age of their grand country houses, and that the English Landscape understood that one of the key Movement was first recognised as Appreciation? functions of the garden and a distinct style – and soon became landscape surrounding their home renowned throughout sophisticated economic Armageddon predicted, was to create a suitable place to European society, where the Age I find it a little tricky to admit to ‘perambulate with their guests’ – of Enlightenment was in full swing. myself that the pandemic has and, whilst walking, they would be brought many changes that turn using their powers of persuasion TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED out also to be advantages – and we discreetly to ensure that their guests I wonder how historians will all seem to have had a little more were influenced into following the describe the current era when they time for ourselves, more time to appropriate pathway … Certainly, come to record the goings-on of appreciate our gardens and the during lockdown many of us have the first two decades of the 21st immediate local area and, of course, been able to enjoy walks in and century? The coronavirus pandemic more time working in our gardens in around the Hampshire countryside FROM THE CHAIRMAN 3 albeit in a less contrived manner only for carefully selected pots, or a Winchester adjacent to the Cathedral than our forebears, who planned large garden in a village – the point or perhaps the threat of the proposed and plotted with meticulous care. is that it is our private space, where new M3 service station that would The design and layout of the we can control the design and the result in permanent damage to the garden and landscape was crucial, plants within it. We may not have remarkable Hackwood Park landscape. not only to create a harmonious ambitions to invite business setting for the latest house, but associates, friends, colleagues and EXPERT DESIGN REQUIRED to ensure that there was an local politicians (heaven forbid) to We acknowledge that we must appropriate route for every exert our influence on them, but have new houses and an appropriate occasion. For a short walk there we do take pride in what we grow, road infrastructure, but we are could be a choice of a glimpse of and perhaps even celebrate success determined to persuade developers the latest vegetable triumphs in the when a flower blooms, or a shrub and the national and local planners walled garden, or a grand classical produces a new, perfect leaf in the to make certain that Hampshire’s temple in which to pause for spring, or a strawberry ripens to garden and landscape is preserved, thought and admire a carefully perfection. We hope the HGT is and that everything possible is done contrived vista over the parkland able to inspire individuals to nurture to make sure each new dwelling, to the borrowed landscape beyond. their own gardens and contribute large and small, has some private Or perhaps the host had a more towards the preservation of local space. We need planners and challenging objective that required gardens and landscapes of note. developers to be encouraged to a more detailed discussion – so a The trustees also strive to influence create new towns and villages that long stroll around the lake, with a planners and architects so that the are integrated within the landscape tantalising glimpse of the pavilion budget and space allocated to not imposed upon it. We need new beyond, was what was needed. private and public green space is places and spaces that are wonderful Aspiring politicians knew that their maximised. And I am heartened places to live, and that will stand the pathway to the top would certainly that the lockdown experience has test of time – why shouldn’t they be smoothed if only they were able helped us all to appreciate how become icons in the future that to invite other influential people of crucial green space is for everyone’s epitomise the Age of Appreciation? note, and to achieve that you would well-being, and how vital it is not Of course, great design takes time need a garden and landscape of only to have our own private – and requires expertise such as that note. In Hampshire we have been gardens, but also to have carefully offered by distinguished, world-class left with a rich heritage of gardens, planned access to the excellent gurus such as Kim Wilkie and Hugh landscapes and priceless network of footpaths into the Petter, both Hampshire residents, architectural details that the HGT is countryside beyond.
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