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12 Botanic Garden News | No. 79 Double visit to Iford Manor, Lower Westwood, Bradfordon-Avon and Derry Nursery of Special Plants Saturday 14th April 2012 Coach departing 9.00am from Redbridge Park & Ride, Oxford; back at c. 4.30pm Iford Manor by kind permission of Mrs Elizabeth Cartwright Hignett This Grade I Italianate garden was designed between 1899 and the 1930s by the architect and landscape gardener Harold Peto. It is a unique romantic hillside garden characterised by steps, terraces, sculptures, cloisters and magnificent rural views. The current owners have restored the layout and planting to Peto’s original designs. Coffee will be served on arrival. Picnic or pub lunch in Bradfordon-Avon. In the afternoon we will visit Derry Nursery of Special Plants to have a tour, buy from the wide selection of unusual plants, and have tea. ≠ Tickets £30, guests £35 (includes coach fare) ≠ Maximum 50 people The University of Oxford Harcourt Arboretum Sunday 22nd April 2012, 2.30pm Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon OX44 9PX By kind permission of Mr Ben Jones, Curator A chance to see the magnificent bluebells and to meet Ben and hear about plans for the Arboretum. The tour will be followed by tea. ≠ Tickets £8, guests £10 Ros Diamond Friends’ seed collection We will have a limited number of packets of seeds to give away in early January. Each packet will contain a mixture of annuals, biennials and hardy perennials, collected from the Botanic Garden. To receive your free seeds, please send an SAE (at least postcard-sized, and as soon as you like) to: Friends’ Seed Collection, Oxford Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, Oxford OX1 4AZ. Rousham House and Garden Thursday 3rd May, 2.00pm Rousham House, near Steeple Aston, Oxon OX25 4QU By kind permission of Mr & Mrs Charles Cottrell-Dormer This is a great opportunity to visit this wonderful house at Rousham and to have a guided tour of the garden with the landscape archaeologist James Bond, whose interest is in the development of the English landscape garden. The house was built in 1635 and has remained in the ownership of the same family ever since. It was extended by William Kent in the 1740s, who also designed the garden. It is one of the finest examples of the first stage of the evolution of the English landscape garden and is the best-preserved survivor of a William Kent design. We will have a picnic tea under the Seven Arches in the garden. ≠ Tickets £16, guests £21 ≠ Maximum 40 people Summer dates for your diary The Friends’ plant sale Sunday 3rd June 2012 Harcourt Arboretum, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon OX44 9PX Our planning for the 2012 plant sale is well under way and with the completion of the new car park at the Arboretum we hope it will be another great success. We will be selling an enormous range and variety of plant stock from the very rare to the more common, including trees, perennials, annuals, exotics, grasses, shrubs and kitchen garden plants. We will also have a useful stall selling secondhand gardening and cookery books, an advice table, a great garden-themed raffle, fabulous refreshments with homemade cakes, jams and goodies and lots of parking. Admission is free and you will be able to explore the Arboretum and see the glorious late spring displays of trees and flowers, before or after buying plants (which can be delivered by wheel-barrow to your car). All the plants for the sale come from the Botanic Garden, college gardens, private collections and members of the Friends. If you are dividing plants this autumn please remember us and add a few extra to be sold in June in support of the work of the Garden and Arboretum. For this sale we hope to increase our range of vegetables, fruit and herbs, so we will particularly welcome any donations of excess stock which you may have. To make this event a success we need many, many plant donations so if you would like to help please do contact me at any time. Thank you. Maura Allen - 01865 311711, 0777 212 7029 or mea@armitstead.com New College Opera Wednesday 11th July 2012 Following the success of Salieri’s Falstaff in 2011, we are delighted to announce that New Chamber Opera will be performing Mozart’s Il Re Pastore in July 2012. Attendees described 2011’s event as: “a truly excellent evening” and “a magical evening”. Further details and ticket prices for 2012 will appear in the next newsletter in early March.
Botanic Garden News | No. 79 13 Garden and Arboretum events The Public Education Programme The Garden and Arboretum’s 2011/12 Public Education Programme is now well under way. Tickets are still available for many events, including the following lectures and courses: Undergraduates from the Department of Chemistry who helped to design the Chemistry at the Garden exhibition Chemistry at the Garden Open daily during normal Garden opening hours; continues until early January 2012. The Botanic Garden is hosting a special exhibition to celebrate 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry. Research scientists at the University of Oxford Department of Chemistry have designed posters and self-guided activities to encourage an interest in plant-based chemistry, to increase the appreciation of chemistry in meeting world needs, and to generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry. ≠≠ No charge other than for Garden entry A change of name... At the Friends’ AGM in October it was agreed to update the Friends’ official name from ‘The Friends of Oxford Botanic Garden’ to ‘The Friends of Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum’. The Friends have supported the Arboretum for many years and we feel that it is appropriate to reflect this in our name. The change also supports the growing emphasis that Garden and Arboretum staff place on working collaboratively across the two sites. Family friendly events at the Garden Our naturally-decorated Christmas tree, a firm favourite with children and adults alike, will be on display in the Conservatory from late November. Big Botanic Christmas Tree Saturday 3rd December, 10.30am-12.30pm Make natural decorations from seeds, leaves and pods. Take some home and leave some hanging on our tree. ≠≠ No need to book, just drop in; no charge other than for Garden entry Fairtrade Fortnight Monday 27th February – Sunday 11th March 2012, during normal opening hours Explore the tropical glasshouses, looking for plants that are grown around the world as Fairtrade crops. ≠≠ No need to book, just drop in; no charge other than for Garden entry International year of forests lecture Tony Kirkham Trees – A cut above the rest Thursday 24th November, 8.00pm The talk covers various subjects relating to the growing of trees in cultivation. It will remind the audience of where trees come from, the threats that they face today both in their natural habitats and in cultivation and how we must use this knowledge to help us understand cultivation techniques such as planting and pruning and keeping trees stress free. ≠≠ Said Business School, Oxford ≠≠ Tickets £12 We apologise for the fact that some Friends may not have received the Public Education Programme leaflet. You can view the leaflet’s contents on -line at: www.botanicgarden.ox.ac.uk/Education/obgeducation-public-1.html or, if you would like to be sent a paper copy, please contact: secretary@fobg.org, 01865 286690.
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