Monmouthshire group sent details of this online talk, details below.

Wednesday 18th October, via Zoom at 7.30pm: ‘Paradise Lost and Restored’, a talk by Tim Walker, the former Director of Oxford Botanic garden.

Tim’s talk covers the progressive development of the Oxford Botanic Garden over the last 400 years. The history of English garden design can be told in different ways, but rarely can it be told “through the lens” of one garden.

The Oxford Botanic Garden was founded at the beginning of the 17th century and its design still bears the hallmarks of 17th century design. Tim looks at how the art of gardening has changed, or perhaps has not, in four centuries in Oxfordshire and how the Oxford Botanic Garden now reflects garden design at the beginning of the 21st century.

The title of the talk refers to the fact that one of the motivations for garden design remains the desire to create paradise on Earth.

Non-members are also welcome to this event so please feel free to circulate this invite to your family, friends and other groups too.

To book place/s, please go to https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/The-HPS-Monmouthshire-Group. Tickets are £4 for members and £6 for non-members.

We’ll also run a raffle as usual at £1 for each raffle ticket. (Participation in the raffle is of course optional – as well as paying for our raffle prizes, the funds raised go towards the cost of our speakers and improving our future programme.)

Zoom details will be sent the evening beforehand to those who have booked. The online waiting room will then open at 7pm and we ask everyone to have joined the call by 7.15pm so that the talk can begin at 7.30pm.