Unforgettable Gardens - Sussex gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll

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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.

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This series on 4 Unforgettable Sussex Gardens follows a theme that is ‘Informed by their histories’. This reflects how the three individual gardens, and one group are all benefiting from new and on-going research into their design and plant collection archives, whether these are letters, catalogues and drawings etc., or, most excitingly, the surviving plants themselves.

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Week 1. 2nd February. Denmans Garden: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 2. 9th February. Highdown Gardens: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 3. 16th February. Borde Hill: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 4. 23 February. A selection of Sussex gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

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Week 4. 23 February. A selection of Sussex gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll with Sally Ingram

Almost ninety years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll, the celebrated artist gardener, continues to influence and inspire garden designers of today. The final talk of the series focusses on the plans and drawings, letters and photographs, gathered from the archives to reimagine and bring to life Jekyll’s work in Sussex. One of her most ambitious planting schemes was for a therapeutic garden at the King Edward VII Sanatorium in Midhurst, but this talk considers her lesser-known commissions in the county: a spring garden for a society hostess, an unusual pleasure ground, a garden lost and a garden misplaced, and a private garden, long neglected but now in the process of rejuvenation.

Many of Jekyll’s gardens no longer exist; the long borders of hollyhocks and roses have faded and disappeared, but piecing together her plans and planting lists, notes to her architect and letters from clients, allows us once again to catch sight of her unforgettable gardens

Sally Ingram is a member of Sussex Gardens Trust and has recently edited Gertrude Jekyll in Sussex, a collection of new research by SGT, which explores the plans and drawings from the Environmental Design Archives in Berkeley. She has an MA in Garden History from Birkbeck and is particularly interested in the designed landscapes of the twentieth century.

Image: Detail from Gertrude Jekyll’s planting plan for new flower borders at West Dean Park, 1898. © Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley

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