Becky Fincham, Head of Programmes at The Serge Hill Project and Tom Stuart-Smith Studio will describe how the Project has become a destination for gardeners, garden designers and plant lovers.
Owner of the Dower House in Derbyshire, gardener Griselda Kerr will share some of the pleasures and benefits of gardening.
Author and biographer Dr Catherine Horwood looks at the life of garden designer and historian Penelope Hobhouse, now in her late 90s and still gardening every day.
For February we’ll be exploring some of the scents and smells of the early Spring garden, as well as examining the medicinal heritage of some of our plants.
Encephalartos natalensis Natal cycad South Africa, West Dome of the Pavilions
The pinnate leaves of these spectacular plants grow from the cylindrical trunk and fall away as they age, leaving a rosette of hard new leaves with opposite leaflets on the stem, each leaflet bearing a stout sharp prickle.
For March we’ll be exploring the history of the Gardens. This tour is also part of the Festival of the Outdoors