Events
"Here is a Zen garden, made entirely of meat." Tony Heywood, 'Vista' talk, Museum of Garden History 1st April 2008.
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Thinkingardens Supper, January 2010: (link)
In which Michael Balston froths, and also insists that water in gardens should feature “no turds, no alligators”,
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Symposium 26th May 2009 - report by Stephen Anderton ".....And indeed, in some circumstances plants alone can be used conceptually to shock people..."
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Symposium 9th of June 2009 - report by Chris Young "Clearly, it all centres on one’s appreciation of gardens..."
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Malvern Spring Gardening Show 6th – 9th May 2010
1st day advance tickets only
Host: Three Counties Showground, Malvern
Please visit www.threecounties.co.uk/springgardening for more information or call 01684 584924
The Royal Society of Arts with Thinkingardens: 'Are gardens Art?' report by Robert Webber and Lesley Hegarty - " ...Stephen’s reply would be: ‘The best of any art form is per se elitist’."
SGD Conference March 2009 review - "Sometimes, rarely, like a good designer should you might well think, they keep to the brief. Jinny did."
SGD Conference November 2006, review: -'plants are incidental to the garden...'
SGD Conference November 2007-"Whilst his style of presentation was no doubt intended to be irreverent and humourous, it became less coherent and relevant as his talk progressed."
Review of Oxford Literary Festival 2007 - "I loathe places like Hestercombe, but then on the other hand you have places like the Barbara Hepworth Garden which is more of an outdoor gallery."
Chelsea 2009 "That Jekker’s Herb Farm’s exhibit is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I need to rush home and do it.” (Penelope Hobhouse)
Chelsea 2008 "But for me, when I look over an edge and down into a space, I want to be rewarded and uplifted ...."
Chelsea 2007 - (a few years ago Tom Cooper, editor of Horticulture magazine in the USA, left Chelsea show one lunchtime to visit a rather discreet garden in north London; he came back saying ‘Sometimes, less is less!')