Wednesday
16 March 2016 – 7.30pm Riseley Village Hall
“Garden
Design through the Ages” – Dorothy Jamieson
Dorothy
Jamieson from the National Trust will come to speak to us about “Garden Design
through the Ages”. Dorothy has been a National Trust volunteer for about twenty years, beginning as a
garden steward at Stowe Landscape Gardens.
She is enthusiastic about gardens from all periods and supports the
National Trust’s work to maintain and restore them. This year the Trust
is joining in with the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of
Capability Brown’s birth, and Dorothy has been researching his life and
landscapes. Several are within reach of Riseley and she will be bringing
information with her.
Members free, Guests £2.
Possible
visit to Rousham House and Gardens
Tuesday
5 July – shared transport
We
are looking into the possibility of organizing a trip to Rousham House and
Gardens www.rousham.org. Rousham is about 12 miles north of Oxford,
OX25 4QU. The house is only open to
visitors by prior arrangement and the cost to visit the house is £10 per
person. The gardens are open daily –
cost £5. We will organize shared transport for the visit. If you would like to join this trip please
let Sue Davies know by 21 March so that we can confirm the tour of the
house. 708614 or sue@daviesps.co.uk
“Rousham and its landscape garden is the work
of William Kent (1685-1748). Rousham represents the first phase of English
landscape design and remains almost as Kent left it, one of the few gardens of
this date to have escaped alteration, with many features which delighted
eighteenth century visitors to Rousham still in situ, such as the ponds and
cascades in Venus’s Vale, the Cold Bath, and seven arched Praeneste, Townsend’s
Building, the Temple of the Mill, and, on the skyline, a sham ruin known as the
‘Eyecatcher’.
The house, built in 1635 by Sir Robert Dormer,
is still in the ownership of the same family. Kent added the wings and the
stable block. The south front is almost as Kent left it, but for the
replacement of the octagonal glazing with plain glass. The house retains some
17th century panelling and the original staircases, furniture, pictures and
bronzes.”
Future
dates:
Tuesday
5 April, 2.30 Milton Ernest Garden Centre – Terry will talk to us about Growing
for Showing
Tuesday
21 June – Hitchin Lavender – shared transport
Friday
8 July – Riseley Garden Walk and Social
Late
July – date to be confirmed - Evening Walk at Wimpole Hall Gardens