This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 4 sessions at a cost of £16 via the link here. This series is free to Northamptonshire Gardens Trust members

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Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

We are delighted that Northamptonshire Gardens Trust is again sharing with us some of the many wonderful heritage gardens and landscapes of their county.

Week 1. 3 November. Kirby Hall: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 2. 10 November. Holdenby House: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 3. 17 November. Apethorpe Palace: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 4. 24 November. Boughton House: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

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Week 2. 10 November. Holdenby House Gardens with James Lowther

This talk will explore the grade 1 listed garden of Holdenby House. Once Elizabethan England’s greatest house and garden it later became a royal palace, and a prison to King Charles I. Eight hectares of formal terraced gardens remain from the 16th-century gardens and park, which have been extensively replanted and redesigned much by Rosemary Verney in keeping with the property. Features include a walled kitchen garden with greenhouses, a walk used by Charles I, and a Silver Border.

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James Lowther VLL has been the owner of Holdenby for 45 years. He would not claim to be a professional plantsman or horticulturalist as his career has been in advertising, where he worked at Saatchi’s, latterly as Chairman & Creative Director. However he is passionate about history, at which he achieved an MA at Oxford and has felt a strong mission to celebrate and mark Holdenby’s unique history, when undertaking the extensive restoration of the House and garden. This and his experience from advertising of the importance of visual impact and design, he hopes makes up for his taxonomic frailties, and he has been happy to use the brilliance of Rosemary Verey & Rupert Golby to make up for this deficit.

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Unforgettable Gardens - Holdenby House