Lecture 7: Friday 26th February: Post-war gardens: structure and the pretties, their recognition and care. Deborah Evans CMLI, IHBC

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Deborah Evans is a chartered landscape architect, historian and horticulturalist with extensive experience in the public and private sector. She prepared the Powys county volume of the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. This work included assessing historic designed landscapes with twentieth century overlays such as Gregynog (Dame Sylvia Crowe) and Maesllwch Castle (Russell Page). She was Head Gardener and Estate Manager at the National Trust property, Tyntesfield, where she led the restoration of the flagship park and garden.

As Historic England landscape architect for the East Midlands and East of England regions she provided expert advisor for the historic environment on a range of planning and development issues affecting designed landscapes. Her casework included often contentious interventions or renovations such as Christopher Bradley-Hole’s new garden within Cambridge Botanic Garden, Kim Wilkie’s ‘Orpheus’ at Boughton House and HTA’s renovation of the Jellicoe Water Gardens in Hemel Hempstead. While at landscape practice Cookson & Tickner she co-authored several landscape conservation management plans, including that for Runnymede and Ankerwycke which included Jellicoe’s Kennedy Memorial. She has lectured widely, written for a number of publications including Landscape and Gardens Illustrated and is a member of the National Trust’s Historic Environment Advisory Group since 2016.

image credit: Denmans Garden created 1947- 1985 by Joyce Robinson and 1980 - 2018 by John Brookes. © Historic England Archive