How to Buy Tickets for Gardens in the Wild 2015 - SOLD OUT
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Booking
Choose the events you wish to attend and
press ‘buy tickets’ at the bottom of the list of events. This will
take you to the booking form.
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The e-tickets will be emailed to you.
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Phone
If you want to buy tickets over the phone, call
our new number 07974269166.
We may not answer straight away but will call you
back as soon as we can.
Saturday 20th June 2015
Bird Watching Walk SOLD OUT
Saturday 20th June, 7.30am Wapley Hill Car Park
Pete Jennings has been the County Bird Recorder for Radnorshire for 25 years and will take you to see and hear birds of a summer morning.
Wapley hill has an ancient fort with commanding views of the surrounding countryside and is a well-known landmark on Mortimer’s Trail.
Time: 2 hours
Directions: From Titley
take B4356 towards Presteigne. After half a mile take a right turn
to Staunton on Arrow.
In
Stansbatch turn left and follow the road for approximately one
mile. Wapley Hill car park is on the left.
Price: SOLD
OUT
Saturday 20th June, 9.30 am Titley Village Hall, HR5 3RL
Helena talks about her book charting the history of citrus in Italy. She will take us from the arrival of citrons in second-century Calabria
through the lemon’s role in the creation of the mafia to current day cutting-edge genetic research.
Price: £7.50
Children's Woodland Craft SOLD OUT
Sam Goddard of the Cart Shed will be organising outdoor activities for children on the meadow.
The session will last 2 hours. Suitable for children aged 6-12.
Maximum
number: 15
Price: £5.00
Alys
Fowler - How to have your garden and eat it: growing
vegetables and flowers together SOLD OUT
Saturday 20th June, 11.00 am Titley Village Hall, HR5 3RL
Kitchen gardener, Guardian columnist, TV
presenter and author of The Edible Garden and
the Thrifty Forager will share her
thoughts on the place of vegetables in the garden.
Price: SOLD
OUT
Saturday 20th June, 12.30pm Titley Village Hall, HR5 3RL
Research from the University of Sheffield has led
to a "magic formula" for establishing areas of perennials from seed
to give hugely colourful planting with very low
maintenance. James Hitchmough, Professor of Horticultural
Ecology will talk about his experiences in the development of
gardens in the wild.
Price: £7.50
Derry Watkins - Gravel Gardening - low maintenance,drought tolerant plants SOLD OUT
Saturday 20th June, 2.00pm Titley Village Hall, HR5 3RL
Derry Watkins has created a wonderful gravel
garden around her house and plant nursery near Bath. She will
introduce us to the
range of plants she grows in a medium that is surprisingly versatile. She will be selling her plants in the meadow on Saturday.
Price: £7.50
Woodland Walk - Mowley Wood Walk SOLD OUT
Saturday 20th June, 3.30pm Stagg Meadow information tent, Titley HR5 3RL
Walk leader Tony Norman practises traditional
woodland management for Mowley's owners, The Bulmer
Trust.
Mixed hardwoods overlook a hidden valley of the
River Arrow, where drovers once watered their flocks.
Distance: 2.5 miles
Time: 2 hours
Directions: Assemble at the information tent on the festival site.
Price: SOLD
OUT
Evening walk in Moccas Park with Hog Roast SOLD OUT
Saturday 20th June, 6.30pm Moccas Park, HR2
9LH
Moccas Park is one of the largest and most
diverse examples of wood pasture remaining in Britain, ranking
in national importance alongside the New Forest, Windsor Great
Park and Sherwood Forest. We will walk from the top of the park and
admire the view that Repton and Capability Brown incorporated in
their rides. We should see some of the 13 species of bat known to
inhabit the park. The ticket will include a hog roast (see
below).
Distance: 2 miles
Time: 2 hours
Directions: We will meet at
the car parking field. There will be a minibus to ferry people up
to the top of the walk. Take the B4355 from Titley
to Kington. Then take the A4111 from Kington through Eardisley.
Continue on past turning to Hay (the road becomes A438).After 1 1/2
miles
take a right hand turn to Bredwardine. At T junction, turn right
and cross the bridge over the Wye. At the T junction turn left on
B4352 and
follow the road for 2 miles. The car park is on left.
Maximum number: 40 (2
groups)
Price: SOLD OUT
Hog Roast at Moccas Park SOLD OUT
Saturday 20th June, 8.00pm Moccas Park, HR2 9LH
We are organising a hog roast next to the park
where you will be able to enjoy some fine Herefordshire pork with
other delights.
For
those who are unable to join us for the walk there are tickets for
the hog roast only.
Directions: Take the
B4355 from Titley to KIngton. Then take the A4111 from Kington
through Eardisley. Continue on past turning to Hay (the road
becomes A438). After 1 1/2 miles take
a right hand turn to Bredwardine. At T junction, turn right and
cross the bridge over the Wye. At the T junction turn left on B4352
and follow the road for 2 miles. The car park is on
left.
Price: £12.50
Sunday 21st June 2015
Sunday 21st June, 10.00am, Titley Village Hall, HR5 3RL
Former Director of Oxford University’s Botanic Gardens, Timothy Walker believes that there is no technical reason why a plant species should be allowed to become extinct. There are many disheartening stories about the state of the world’s plants. But there are also many examples of how thousands of people are making very significant contribution to maintaining biodiversity, and you may be one of them. Timothy will explain.
Price: £7.50
Tim Richardson - The New English Garden SOLD OUT
Sunday 21st June, 11.30am Titley Village Hall, HR5 3RL
There has been a boom in innovative gardening in the 21st century. While many of these gardens challenge received wisdoms, others reflect the sensuously romantic tradition of English planting design. Tim will present the ideas he set out in his recent book.
Price: £7.50
Sunday 21st June, 13.00pm Titley Village Hall, HR5 3RL
After proving a huge success at our first
festival, the much loved columnist and author returns for further
musing about her life with plants.
Price: SOLD OUT
Eywood Walk: The ghost of the park & garden SOLD OUT
Sunday 21st June, 2.00pm Stagg Meadow information tent, Titley HR5 3RL
Built in 1705 by the 5th Earl of Oxford, Eywood was demolished in 1954. The landscaped park and various estate houses remain. The walk will take in Titley Pool nature reserve and approach Eywood via its serpentine driveway. It will return to Stagg meadow passing the remains of the abandoned house. Mark Birchley, a local historian, will guide you round this historic and romantic site.
Distance: 2.5 miles
Time: 2 hours
Directions: Assemble at the information tent on the festival site.
Price: SOLD OUT
Wild Flower Meadow walk: Herefordshire Wildlife Trust - Quebb Corner Meadow and Upper Welson Marsh SOLD OUT
Sunday 21st June, 2.00pm Meet at Quebb Corner Meadow, HR3 6LP
Neville Hart, reserve manager, will lead a walk that takes in two very different reserves managed by Herefordshire Nature Trust.
For many years now, Quebb Corner Meadow has been managed as a hay meadow with aftermath grazing and without the use of herbicides or artificial fertilisers. We hope to show you species typical of old meadows: pignut, lesser knapweed and in the wetter areas, lesser spotted orchids amongst others. There is about a 1 mile walk along a public footpath to Upper Welson Marsh. This is a beautiful secret spot surrounded by dappled woodland where we hope to see the marsh helleborine, orchids, ragged robin and cotton grass.
Distance: 2 miles
Time: 2.5 hours
Directions: Take the B4355 from Titley to Kington. Then take the A4111 from Kington. After about 3 miles you will pass Bollingham house and church on the right. Half way down the hill you will see a right hand turn and a lay by. Turn right – the meadow is about 100 yards down the lane. There will be parking.
Price: SOLD OUT
Garden Rover 20th and 21st June 2.30pm - 6.00pm SOLD OUT
Ecology day at Newport House run by The Cart Shed Friday 19th June 10 - 16.30 SOLD OUT
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