This talk and all our lectures are FREE for Friends of the Botanical Gardens to attend. Members of the public are also welcome to join us on payment of £5 at the door on the day. Live talks are held in the Education Centre in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens - easily accessed via the Thompson Road Entrance.

Landscape Designer Amy Langron has spent the past seven years restoring a walled garden that she rents in North Derbyshire. Her aim when starting the garden was to learn about plant interactions and the long-term maintenance of different planting styles to apply to her work in practice and teaching.

Amy takes a slow, low input approach to gardening aiming for minimal disturbance, ecological benefit and low maintenance. During her talk she will share the successes and failures of these different planting experiments and how they might be translated to other garden spaces.

Amy is the co-director of Hortus Collective, a Landscape design practice whose work delivers landscapes and gardens with a strong sense of place and ecological conviction through a natural and crafted aesthetic. She has also worked as a tutor of planting design at Sheffield University in the department of landscape.

Amy has a passion for plants and set up the Sheffield event ‘Talking Plants’ three years ago to bring people together from the horticultural industries in the North

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