- 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
Spring Lecture - The Development & Decline of Walled Kitchen Gardens
Thursday 18th of March 2010 (7.00pm)
Susan Campbell is a writer and illustrator and has been researching the history of the walled kitchen garden for over 20 years. She has personally visited and photographed nearly 400 walled kitchen gardens in the UK and abroad, and is a foremost authority on the subject. Her investigations have resulted in the publication of A Calendar of Gardeners’ Lore; Cottesbrooke, an English Kitchen Garden; and Charleston Kedding, a History of Kitchen Gardening. She lectures and advises professionally and is currently recording the National Trust's restoration of the kitchen gardens and glasshouses at Tatton Park, for a book.
Walled kitchen gardens were found in the ground of most large country houses in Britain and Ireland. They were designed to provide a continual supply of fruit, flowers and vegetable. With the aid of heated glasshouses, there would be out-of season delicacies such as strawberries for Christmas, exotic tropical fruit, figs and grapes. The remains of these gardens can still be seen, some converted to other uses, some simply abandoned; a few have been restored to their previous productiveness.
Her talk will examine the history of these old kitchen gardens and will equip us all with the knowledge for the various trips we have this year to places that have walled kitchen gardens.
After the lecture tea and cake will be served as usual. If you feel like baking a cake please let
Costs
Members free, Guests £2 (payable on the door)
Location: Friends Meeting House, 16 Queens Road Leicester, LE2 1WP Just south of the city centre, next to Victoria Park. There is limited parking behind the meeting house and it is possible to park along Victoria Park Road.
Click on the blue marker for a photograph of the front of the meeting house - main entrance is at the rear via the car park and garden