- Vist to Highgrove House gardens
Friday 24th of September 2010
- Chinese Walled Gardens
Thursday 7th of October 2010
- Autumn Lecture The Soil Association - an overview
Thursday 21st of October 2010
CELEBRITY LECTURE:
Thursday 6th of May 2010 (7.30pm)
Bunny Guiness will talk on ‘Transforming Your Garden’.
The talk runs through how to set about altering your garden in order to get the most out of it. It is aimed at those who do not think their garden fulfills its potential showing them strategies to cope with and address common problem areas. Maintenance, planting design, getting a basic survey are talked about as well as many different design elements. Slides of gardens she has designed will be used to illustrate the ideas.
Bunny Guinness, Chartered Landscape Architect, works on a wide range of commissions for a diverse clientele. Private commissions vary from tiny city gardens to large stately homes while commercial projects span parks and public gardens in Japan to golf courses, hotel gardens and shopping precincts in Europe. As might be expected, budgets are equally varied with client implemented schemes at one end of the scale contrasting with extravagant ‘instant’ gardens using favoured contractors at the other.
Bunny Guinness' gardens have appeared on many television programmes. Her Cypriot flavoured garden won the Best Garden in the Series Award on Carol Vordeman’s ‘Better Gardens’,(winning the client a cottage) and a number of her schemes were featured on ‘Guinness in the Garden’, her own programme which ran to three series. Bunny’s own garden was featured in Channel Four’s ‘Gardener’s Gardens’ and she has also designed a Cooks’ Garden for BBC 2’s ‘Small Town Gardens’. For the last five years she has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’ as well as designing the programme’s own garden (and potting shed!) at Sparsholt College. She also writes a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph.
Venue: Frank and Katherine May Lecture Theatre, Henry Wellcome Building, Leicester University, Lancaster Road
Cost: £10 which includes a glass of wine or soft drink.
To book: Contact us.
Location maps and directions: (Parking is available either side of the Richard Attenborough Centre. You may have to use the intercom to get the barrier raised. Tell them you are attending the lecture)
