Our next meeting is on Thursday September 12th at the Christ Church Centre at 7.30 – tea and coffee will be available from 7pm. Admission is £2 and guests are welcome.
Our speaker this month is Simon Gulliver with a talk Gardens of a Golden Afternoon which looks at how the Arts and Crafts movement inspired architects and the gifted amateur owners of some of our most beautiful houses to create masterpieces of garden design; combining quality of materials, craftsmanship and artistry. Embedded in it is a case study on the original inception for the landscape around Stoneywell and Ernest Gimson’s and the Barnsley Brothers’ homes in the Cotswolds. The talk debates what constitutes an Arts & Crafts Garden: is it the values that led to its creation that makes it Arts & Crafts, or merely a style consisting of a collection of typical garden design elements found in gardens of that period?
The picture above is taken from the 5th edition of The English Flower Garden by William Robinson, published on 1896, and shows the borders at Broadway in Worcestershire.
Also this month is our coach trip to RHS Harlow Carr on September 19th. There are still a few places available – contact Helen for details.
Stone Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society 