Gardening at Gravetye manor

Speaker: Tom Coward

Gravetye Manor is most famous as the home of William Robinson, one of the most influential gardeners
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Robinson was a prolific garden writer, promoting the wild garden and ridiculing carpet bedding, topiary and contemporary ‘bad taste’, and it was at Gravetye that Robinson put most of his ideas into practice. In 2010 the Manor, now run as a country house hotel, was bought by Mr and Mrs Hosking, and a major restoration
of the garden began. Tom will talk about the work involved in this restoration as well as his experience of gardening in such a beautiful and historic property.

All Winter Lecture Series lectures take place at 8.00pm at the Saïd Business School (adjacent to the railway station) in Oxford. Tickets cost £12 per lecture or £54 for the whole series of 5 (ticket price includes a glass of wine).
For more details, visit: http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/whatson