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Saturday 25 January 2025 at 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
In a late change to the advertised lecture, Pat Murphy will talk about the best snowdrop cultivars, what to look at in snowdrops and the various species which can be found in the Lake District.
Pat is a regular gardener at Holehird and an authority on a number of different plants, most notably meconopsis, geraniums and galanthus. She has been a volunteer at Holehird for many years and lives in Ambleside. We are grateful to Pat for stepping in to cover this slot, caused by the non-availability of the previously-announced speaker.
This lecture is free and is open to non-members of the LHS.
Designing with Plants Course
Location - Holehird Gardens, Patterdale Road, Windermere, LA23 1NP
Tutor - Shelagh Todd: Cumbria-based lecturer, designer and plantswoman.
Course Description- It’s all too easy to have a garden full of wonderful plants that feels more like a restless collection than a well thought out design. Discover how to create a garden with a sense of year-round unity and well-being. Learn to select plants for their visual, aesthetic, and structural properties, how to assess your site conditions and the process of creating a planting plan on paper.
Course Content will include Plant Knowledge and Identification; Plant Form, Habit, Colour & Texture; The Role of Plants in the Planting Scheme; Seasonal Colour and Excitement; Considering Plant Selection and using the mantra of “the right plant for the right place”; Drawing up Planting Plans and Exploring & Discussing Different Plants and Themed Borders in the glorious gardens at Holehird.
Course Dates
Spring and Summer 2025: 4 days teaching (10.30am - 4.00pm)
Course fee: £360
Dates: Thursday 3 April, Thursday 15 May, Thursday 12 June and Thursday 10 July
Autumn and Winter 20254: 4 days teaching (10.30am - 4.00pm)
Course fee: £360
Dates: Thursday 4 September, Thursday 9 October, Thursday 6 November and Thursday 4 December
For more information and to book your place, email Shelagh on shelagh.todd@outlook.com
Saturday 22 February 2025, 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
Elizabeth Mooney is a Horticulturalist at the Edible Gardens, RHS Wisley
In this talk she will look at the problems with our food system and how growing your own can help to address this, along with some potential food crops we may all be growing and eating in the future.
This lecture is free and open to non-members of the LHS.
29 March 2025, 2pm
Marchesi Centre, Holly Road, off Ellerthwaite Road, Windermere, LA23 2AF
Dr Andrew Ward is the owner of Norwell Nursery which has more than 20 beds filled with nothing but sharp sand. Plants grown include over 30 different echinaceas, plus hundreds of North American, Mediterranean and alpine plants thriving on an austere diet. Among many others, these include salvias, nepeta, gaura, bulbs, grasses and coreopsis.
This lecture is free and is open to non-members as well as LHS members.
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: Reduced to £1 - a bargain!