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Saturday 24th June 2017
Sarah Price - Plant
First
Saturday 24th June, 9.30 am Whitfield Barn HR2 9DG
Sarah Price is a British garden designer and award winning writer with a background in Fine Art. She has established herself as one of the most prominent planting designers in Britain, winning acclaim for the 2012 gardens at London's Olympic Park.
Through an overview of past and current work she will give real examples and show how her design processes work.
Price:£8.50
Sponsored by Impact Print & Design Ltd
Saturday 24th June, 10.00am Whitfield HR2
9DG
Sam Goddard of the Rooted Forest School will be organising outdoor activities for children at Whitfield. The session will last 2 hours. Suitable for children aged 6-12.
Price: £6.00
Saturday 24th June, 11.00am Whitfield
Barn HR2 9DG
Tim Mowl, professor of landscape and garden history, will give an illustrated talk on Herefordshire as the birthplace of the Savage Picturesque – an eighteenth-century taste in gardens and landscapes for the wilder scenes of unadorned nature.
Price: £8.50
Sponsored by Rural Concierge
Saturday 24th June 11.00am Whitfield HR2 9DG
Jinny Blom - Before the Garden
Saturday 24th
June,
12.30pm Whitfield Barn HR2
9DG
Jinny is a landscape architect and was the designer of Prince Harry’s Lesotho garden at Chelsea. She will discuss aspects of her approach to design that illustrate the vital preparatory work that goes into her landscape gardening. The talk will also follow the narrative of her new book The Thoughtful Gardener: an intelligent approach to garden design. She will take a journey across continents and soil types, vernacular architecture and contemporary installations, and planting both wild and tame.
Price: £8.50
Saturday 24th June, 2.00pm Whitfield Barn HR2 9DG
The Herefordshire Recorder for wild flowers will astound you with the variety of species and habitats of flowers to be found in Herefordshire, some unique to the county. A special treat is the rare ghost orchid.
Price: £8.50
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust 'Crow Wood' nature reserves guided walk - SOLD OUT
Saturday 24th June, 3.15pm Meet at the HWT stand in festival area, Whitfield HR2 9DG
Join Herefordshire Wildlife Trust (HWT) Living Landscapes Director Helen Stace on a guided walk of Crow Wood HWT nature reserve. Helen heads up the team at HWT responsible for managing all of their 55 nature reserves. An experienced ecologist, she will lead you through the wild flower meadows of Crow Wood. This reserve consists of ancient grassland with wood pasture, coppice and the fast flowing Dolward Brook. There are flourishing populations of green winged orchid, common spotted orchid and yellow rattle. You will also see bird’s foot trefoil and many other wild flowers throughout the reserve.
Time: 2 hours
Directions: There is not adequate parking at Crow Wood nature reserve, so please meet at the HWT stand at Whitfield Estate where you will be transported to the reserve in the HWT minibus, and returned to Whitfield Estate.
Maximum number: 14 People
Price: SOLD OUT
Guided walk through Kentchurch Deer Park
Saturday 24th June, 4pm, Kentchurch Court, HR2 0DB
Rosanna Watts grew up at Kentchurch and will take visitors on a guided walk through the deer park among ancient trees, including yew, sweet chestnut, field maple and jack of Kent's Oak where he was supposed to have translated the bible from Latin into Welsh. Fallow deer, newly renovated lime kilns and spectacular views of Herefordshire and Wakes.
Maximum number: 25 People
Meet at front of house
Price: Coveredby the Rover Ticket
Saturday 24th June, 7.30pm Whitfield HR2 9DG
The guided tour is full but there are tickets for the supper in the barn at Whitfield. Join us for a glass of wine in the Whitfield gardens followed by a supper of tagine, couscous and salad. There will be strawberries and cream.
Price: £20
Sunday 25th June 2017
Noel Kingsbury and Caroline Hanks - What are meadows?
Sunday 25th June, 9.30 am Whitfield Barn
HR2 9DG
What makes a good wildflower meadow? How can we make a meadow? Local farm and environment advisor Caroline Hanks and researcher Noel Kingsbury look at the grasses and wildflowers that make up meadows: how to start them off by seeding, and how to manage existing grassland, including rough pasture and lawns, to improve their diversity of species.
Price: £8.50
Sponsored by Neal’s Yard Creamery
James Clapp - Re-thinking your garden soil
Sunday 25th June 11am. Whitfield Barn HR2 9DG
James has run Raymond Blanc's kitchen garden at Le Manoir Aux Quat’saison and teaches vegetable cultivation at Arne Maynard's gardening school. He will share his passion for creating healthy garden soils. Mixing theory with practice, he will take us outside the classroom to demonstrate basic soil assessment techniques and show how they can be best used to help both our plots and borders thrive.
Maximum Number: 25 People
Price: £8.50
Anna
Pavord
Sunday 25th June 11am. Whitfield Barn HR2 9DG
Anna returns to Gardens in the Wild celebrating the magnificent diversity of the English landscape, its beauty and its potential to both comfort and awe us. Through the eyes of painters, farmers, and the first landscape tourists, she explores the different ways in which we have, through the ages, responded to the land.
Price: £8.50
Sponsored by Lock’s Garage
Timothy
Walker – Euphorbias, Probably the best garden plants in the
world.
Sunday 25th June 12.30pm Whitfield Barn
HR2 9DG
By popular request, Timothy Walker is returning to Gardens in the Wild. Nobody needs to be convinced of the supremacy of spurges as garden plants for every situation. This talk explains some of the natural history of euphorbias and their botany. It then details some of the most desirable species and cultivars and suggests some planting associations.
Price: £8.50
Mary Keen
Sunday 25th June 2.00pm Whitfield Barn HR2 9DG
The internationally renowned garden designer and writer shares her thoughts on attitudes to gardening. With so many perfect pictures of perfect gardens, how do we cope with so much aspiration? Gardening should not be a guilt trip: loosen up and enjoy it. Even Dixter is running wild. Where Fergus leads, we should follow.
Price: £8.50
Herefordshire
Wildlife Trust ‘The Parks’ nature reserves guided
walk
Sunday 25th June, 3:15pm. Meet at the HWT
stand in festival area, Whitfield HR2 9DG
Join Herefordshire Wildlife Trust (HWT) Conservation Manager Andrew Nixon on a guided walk of The Parks nature reserve. A fairly new reserve, it comprises an impressive and majestic sweep of grassland lying on the gentle north and south facing slopes of the Dulas Brook. The Brook itself supports a rich diversity of species indicating good water quality and signs of otter may be seen along its entire length. It also has a thriving population of native white-clawed crayfish. The grassland supports a fine variety of wildflowers, grasses and fungi.
Time: 2.5 hours
Directions: There is not adequate parking at The Parks nature reserve, so please meet at the HWT stand at Whitfield Estate where you will be transported to the reserve in a minibus and returned to Whitfield Estate.
Maximum number: 14 People
Price:
£5.00
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