Rodmarton Manor Lecture Days
Our Garden Lecture Days will be held in the historic Arts and Crafts Manor House at Rodmarton. Each day begins at 10.30am with coffee and tea before the first talk at 11.00am. A delicious two course lunch with wine and elderflower will then be served with time to explore the garden before the second lecture starts at 2.00pm. The days will end at around 3.30 to 4.00pm with tea and homemade cake.
Nick Macer
Unusual Trees and Shrubs for the Modern Garden
Nick will be inspiring and guiding us through his extensive knowledge of lesser known trees and unusual shrubs that we should all be growing in our gardens. An unmissable talk for those wanting to discover rarer and interesting varieties.
After studying arboriculture as a young man in the early 1990’s with placements at Westonbirt and Hillier arboretums, Nick went on to run the gardens at Cowley Manor in Gloucestershire and develop a tree collection there. In 1997 Pan Global Plants was born, which Nick has run ever since, offering a sumptuous selection of some of the finest and rarest plants of all kinds to be offered in the UK. Pan Global has since supplied most of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the UK and Europe and continues to be a centre of excellence, with a big emphasis on the lesser known, desirable and correctly named. Nick also offers consultancy for gardens, treescapes and arboretums.
Marian Boswall
Alchemy of Change
Award-winning Landscape Architect Marian Boswall will discuss how her studio is at the forefront of making change and creating landscapes that are beautiful and give back to the land. Her designs are not only elegant and serene but also consider what lies beneath. Richly illustrated with projects ranging from a London townhouse garden with a labyrinth to a Cotswold chapel conversion that sits in a wildflower meadow, Marian will discuss how fundamental change is needed to create a lasting legacy and how as gardeners we can make an impact.
A leading landscape architect and horticulturalist with a reputation for creating beautiful and regenerative landscapes, Marian is known for her thoughtful and contextual design approach. She works with the land, the people and local materials to discover and develop the special and the important in each project. From flood plain restoration to farmstead creation, respect for the ecology, the history and the future inform her thinking and the studio’s designs. Marian was a lecturer in Historic Garden Conservation at Greenwich University for several years. She is also an advisor to historic estates, landowners and land stewards. She is a Fellow of both The Landscape Institute and The Society of Garden Designers and she previously held the position of Director of the British Association of Landscape Industries and of the Blackthorn Trust biodynamic healing garden. Marian is also co-founder of the Sustainable Landscape Foundation. Kindness is a deeply embedded ethos: Marian works with the way the land can heal and connect us on all levels.