(to be launched on the RHS Libraries website on 08 June). An on-line exhibition based on the diaries of Loyal Johnson, an American student, who, in 1928, visited more than eighty gardens in the UK with his friend Sam Brewster. They travelled, mostly by bicycle, and kept detailed records of their journey (almost 1,500 miles). […]
A Short Course of six sessions to be led by Kate Harwood Three aspects of Victorian Gardening: Pteridomania, the Fern Craze, swept Victorian England. It stimulated plant collecting, technological advances and added new features to homes and gardens. Pineta, and their close cousins, arboreta were the product of the mania for exotic trees. Driven by […]
The book launch for ‘Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire’ featuring a talk by Professor Tom Williamson. This is an opportunity to meet the authors, to see the Red Books owned by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, and to purchase copies of the book, which will be on sale at the RRP of £25 Tickets at £5 […]
HGT members and friends are invited to explore the historic Repton landscape of Panshanger Park in the company of Anne Rowe and Kate Harwood. The start point will be the Panshanger stables at TL290 133, off the B1000 between Hertford and Digswell where we have permission to park. Free, no need to book. If you […]