Tayshan Hayden-Smith: Closing the Green Gap
The Sissinghurst Series presents activist, gardener, and National Trust Ambassador Tayshan Hayden-Smith exploring who has access to green spaces and how public and private gardens shape culture.
- Booking essential
Early bird tickets will be available from Friday 18 July until midday on Friday 1 August 2025.
Following the launch of Grow to Know's new campaign Closing the Green Gap, Tayshan interrogates the historical divide between public and private space in the context of British garden culture, asking who gets to access beauty, who decides what it looks like, and how green space can be reclaimed as a shared force for change.
From guerrilla gardening in Grenfell’s shadow to designing for communities locked out of land, Tayshan will explore how activism, culture, and care can reconnect people to place, and to each other.
This event is part of The Sissinghurst Series for 2025, a series of horticultural experts speaking on topical issues in the gardening world today.
About the speaker:
Tayshan Hayden-Smith is an activist, gardener, and National Trust Ambassador, who brings his perspective on what it means to cultivate beauty in a time of crisis, inequality, and renewal.
Times
Prices
| Ticket type | Ticket category |
|---|---|
| All Early bird ticket | £22.50 |
| All Standard ticket | £25.00 |
The basics
- Booking details
Call 0344 249 1895
- Meeting point
Please go to Visitor Reception to sign in.
- Accessibility
This event takes place upstairs in the Oast Exhibition Space. There are handrails on both sides of the steps. Seating inside will be provided.
- Other
This event includes admission to the site, but £4 car parking charges to non-National Trust members still apply.
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