Saturday 23
11am Garden tour of the Pleasure Garden
12pm Garden tour of the Formal Garden
Gather - Refreshments, Tea & Coffee
2:30pm Introduction & Welcome - Lady Rose Lauritzen & Neil Porteous
3:00pm Stephen Lacey : New Plants, New Ideas and New Inspiration–featuring some of the best gardens I have seen on my travels across Europe and America.
4:15pm Comfort break
4:30pm Matthew Biggs: ‘The Lobb Brothers – Plant Hunters Extraordinaire’ telling the stories of William and Thomas and my own experiences with them and their plants
5:30pm Questions both speakers
6:00pm Depart
Sunday 24
10am Gather - Refreshments, Tea & Coffee
10:30am Mary Keen: Grand designs -Designing for the high and mighty
11:30am Comfort break
11:45am Stephen Lacey-Scent in Your Garden – an exploration of how to inject scent into planting and a calendar of the best scented plants season by season.
12:45pm Questions both speakers
1pm Buffett Lunch
3pm Mary Keen: Special collections for ordinary gardeners
4pm Comfort break
4:15pm Matthew Biggs: ‘Frank Kingdon Ward – the Last of the Great Plant Explorers’.
5:15pm Sum up and close
5:30 Group photograph
6:00pm Depart
