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BBC three calling all young gardeners for "Young Talent of the Year Show"
Young Gardener of the Year is part of a series that celebrates the working heroes of Great Britain, showcasing the unsung heroes at the heart of Britain, so if you know a talented young gardener aged 16-25 then BBC three would like to here from you. >More details.
English Heritage have announced an EH sponsored Conference to be held on 21 June 2011 on the implications of the Flood & Water Management Act 2010.
This is an important opportunity for the historic parks and gardens sector to discuss the implications of the Act on lakes and water features and to work out what action needs to be taken to influence the enabling legislation later this year. >More details.
Isle of Wight 2010 AGT Weekend Conference
Ann Brooks, Avon Gardens Trust, reports on the visit to Ventnor Botanic Garden. > See more
> Historic Landscape Project Officer
AGT members will be delighted to read that Linden Groves the
former editor of the AGT Eyecatcher newsletter has recently won a Garden Media
Guild award with her book, co-authored with Gillian Mawrey, The Gardens
of English Heritage voted Most Inspirational Book of the Year. See http://www.gardenmediaguild.co.uk/awards/book.htm
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> A breathtaking new landscape feature
has recently been created within the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Grade I registered gardens at Boughton House near Kettering.
> Urban Green Nation:
A new publication from CABE that assembles the national evidence about the quantity, quality and use of publicly owned urban green space in England.
Sir Joseph Banks Tribute Garden open:
The Sir Joseph Banks Tribute Garden has been opened recently in Horncastle, Lincolnshire by the High Sheriff, Mr John Godfrey, a project commissioned by the fledgling Sir Joseph Banks Society (Patron Sir David Attenborough) to create a community garden to display exotics associated with Banks's discoveries and plant collecting.
Research and planting was carried out by (left to right) Gwen Grantham, former Vice-Chairman of Lincolnshire Gardens Trust, together with fellow society members Pat Hickson and Jean Burton, Project Leader.
Heritage at Risk - New Pilot Project...
Lincolnshire Gardens Trust is supporting a new conservation venture: a pilot project working together with The Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire
> See more
A review of Rivers Nursery of Sawbridgeworth by Elizabeth Waugh.
Rivers was one of the most important of the Fruit Tree Nurseries of the 19th century. Kate Harwood says this book "is a welcome addition to our knowledge, not only of Hertfordshire’s orchards but of the range of activities of such nurseries." > See more
Black Dog’s latest book release:
Kids in the Garden: Growing Plants for Food and Fun. > See more
A revised and updated 3rd Edition of 'Parks and Gardens'
By David Lambert, Peter Goodchild and Judith Roberts, has been published in association with English Heritage. > See more
Hear Anne Rowe publicise the research work of Hertfordshire Gardens Trust
on a recent BBC Radio4 Gardeners Question Time, highlighting the need for research volunteers for all county gardens trusts. > Listen now
