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Saturday 26 October 2024 at 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
Heather Birkett is Garden and Outdoor Manager at Acorn Bank, the National Trust property in Temple Sowerby, near Penrith. Best known for its comprehensive herb collection and traditional fruit orchards, Acorn Bank is a tranquil haven with a fascinating historical and industrial past. Today the walled gardens shelter a medicinal herb garden, herbaceous borders, lily-filled pond and traditional orchards carpeted with Edwardian daffodils in spring. But in the past Acorn Bank has been the base of the Knights Templar, as well as an important centre for gypsum mining.
This lecture is free and is open to non-members of the LHS.
An artist's guide to creating a beautiful garden in harmony with nature
Saturday 30 November 2024, 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
TJ Maher is an artist who lives in County Wicklow, Ireland. His garden, Patthana, is a combination and succession gardener's dream, with exceptional partnering of plants, a unique creation combining horticultural and artistic disciplines. His garden has featured on BBC Television's Gardener's World and also in The English Garden, Gardens Illustrated and House & Garden.
His recently published book is called 'Grounded in the Garden'. Copies may be available for sale at the lecture!
This lecture is free and open to non-members of the LHS.
Holehird Gardens has been voted RHS Partner Garden of the Year Regional Winner 2023 for North of England and Northern Ireland.
Visitors were asked to vote for their favourite 'Feel Good' garden among the 221 RHS Partner Gardens and Holehird repeated its success of last year in topping the poll for the North of England and Northern Ireland.
Visitors to the garden said:
“Fabulous location, very peaceful and wide selection of plants. Looked great even on a soggy day!”
“Every path you take there is so much beauty and variety with the amazing backdrop of the Lakeland views."
Holehird Gardens is unique in being run entirely by volunteers of the Lakeland Horticultural Society and this is a brilliant recognition of the efforts of all our dedicated volunteers, whether gardening or contributing in another way.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the LHS, our volunteer gardeners were asked to select their favourite plants amongst all those to be found at Holehird. Their 50 favourites are shown in this book. The book is illustrated with photographs taken at Holehird by our volunteers and the description of each plant includes growing information. Gold labels mark the “Gardeners’ Choice” in the garden. Many of the plants have also been grown for sale at Holehird - look out for same gold label on the pots in the plant sales area.
Price: £5.50.