MGH Events

EVENTS 2007/2008

Day Events (Workshops, Day Courses etc)
Evening Events (Lectures etc)
Garden Visits
Other Museum Events
Family & Educational Events
Arts Events (including Music Concerts)

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DAY EVENTS

Saturday 10th May
NGS Yellow Book Open Day
10.30am-5.00pm
£3.00 admission/£2.50 concessions
At this time of year, visitors to the Museum’s 17th century style knot garden will enjoy late flowering spring bulbs and early perennials in bloom. As part of the Museum’s ongoing support of the National Garden Scheme a proportion of Museum entrance fees for this day will go towards the Scheme’s nominated charities. Lambeth Palace gardens will also be open (2pm-5.30pm, a separate entrance fee applies). www.ngs.org.uk for more details.

Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th June
Open Garden Squares Weekend
10.30am-5.00pm
OGSW tickets are £7.50 and allow entry to participating gardens throughout London, including the Museum, over the weekend.
Early June is a great time to visit the Museum as its 17th century style knot garden and wild flower garden will both be in full flowering glory. Why not combine your visit with a visit to Lambeth Palace’s gardens which will also be open on Saturday 7th June (note: Lambeth Palace Gardens are open on Saturday only).

An Open Garden Squares Weekend ticket will allow entry to these and many other London gardens on this weekend. Tickets re available at the Museum on 7th and 8th June. For details of where to purchase advance tickets please visit www.opensquares.org.

Monday 9th June
Plant & Flower Photography Made Simple: A digital photography workshop with Charlie Hopkinson (for DSLR cameras)
10.30am-4.00pm
£80 or £70 for Museum Friends (includes lunch, tea and coffee)
We’re delighted that Charlie Hopkinson, a photographer who writes about digital photography for The Daily Telegraph and whose images have appeared in Gardens Illustrated, is hosting another one day ‘hands-on’ course for people who have an interest in plant and flower photography.

It’s designed to help people who have just made the jump from film to digital photography to take better images of flowers, plants and gardens. Participants will learn how to set up shots before photographing cut flowers in mini studios, and plants and flowers in the Museum’s garden.

Participants will not be ‘abandoned’ after the course and will have the opportunity to email images to Charlie for comment for up to a week after the workshop.

Participants must bring their own DSLR camera. Please contact the Museum for further information about the workshop.

Wednesday 28th May 2008
Evening Debate: ‘Guerrilla Gardening’? Hosted by Guerrilla Gardener Richard Reynolds
6.30pm for 7.00pm
£10/£5 Museum Friends, glass of wine included
Guerrilla Gardening’ has its roots in New York in the 1970s when people spontaneously planted up derelict plots. It has recently enjoyed a revival in popularity, with sunflowers appearing on roundabouts and beds of lavender alongside city streets. It has attracted the interest of national media, and many high profile gardeners.

The debate will be introduced by Richard Reynolds, author of On Guerrilla Gardening (Bloomsbury May 2008), who will share his experiences and his philosophy that we should seize control of our shared environment.

The floor will then be thrown open to attendees to debate guerrilla gardening and what it means to them; is it ecological – planting ‘useful’ vegetables in ornamental spaces, about claiming public space for the people, bringing nature into the city, or something else?

Tuesday 3rd June 2008
Evening Event: ‘Flowers in the Streets’ – An Open Discussion
6.30pm for 7.00pm.
Free, but please call to reserve a place to avoid disappointment
Across Europe, spontaneous floral shrines have been one of the urban phenomena of the last decade and are increasingly common sights in parks, on streets and alongside country roads. They have become sites of private pilgrimage and public symbols of grief and memory. This is the first event to discuss why.

This topic will be introduced by writer and environmentalist Ken Worpole and psychologist Gerda Speller, and will be followed by an open discussion, where members of the audience are strongly encouraged to contribute their own thoughts, observations and experiences of the subject.

The Museum is planning an exhibition on floral memorial shrines in 2009. This event provides an important opportunity for us to explore and develop the exhibition themes with the widest range of people.

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GARDEN VISITSRDEN V

Thursday 29th May 2008
An Evening at Great Dixter with Fergus Garrett.
Coach leaves Museum of Garden History at 2.30pm and will return at 10.30pm. Alternatively, attendees can make their own way to Great Dixter.

£60 per person including light buffet, wine and coach transport or £50 per person including light buffet and wine (no coach transport).

Museum Friends: £50 per person including light buffet, wine and coach transport or £40 per person including light buffet and wine (no coach transport).

The gardens at Great Dixter were begun when Nathaniel Lloyd commissioned Sir Edwin Lutyens to create a romantic country house in the East Sussex Weald. Today visitors from across the world come to enjoy the spirit of the place and Christopher Lloyd’s dynamic approach to gardening. Since Christopher’s death, Head Gardener Fergus Garrett has continued his radical, exuberant and unconventional style. This trip is an opportunity to visit one of the most iconic gardens in England at a time when it is closed to the public.

We will arrive at 4.30pm and be taken to the Great Hall for an introductory talk about the house. Following that, we will move to the Benenden Hall for a light buffet and a glass of wine. From here there will be access to the gardens until 7pm when Fergus Garrett will give a talk in the Great Hall. Following the talk there will be an opportunity to have a last look around the garden and visit the nursery (where staff will be on hand throughout the evening). Fergus will be available for questions until our departure at 8.30pm.

Saturday 21st June 2008
A Private Tour of Horndon-on-the-Hill Eco-Garden, by its creator, John Little.
Meet at Horndon-on-the-Hill, Essex, at 11am.
£20 (excluding lunch), Museum Friends £15 (excluding lunch).

Ten minutes from the Dartford Tunnel is one of the most beautiful new eco-gardens in England that Friends may recognise as the garden that appeared on the cover of Gardens Illustrated magazine in September 2007. We are delighted to be able to offer a trip to visit this ‘hidden gem’, that is not open to the public.

John Little of The Grass Roof Company built a house at Horndon-on-the-Hill in 1996, winning a Daily Telegraph award. In the last ten years he has planted a wild garden and his tour will show us that – as he puts it – ‘Biodiversity doesn’t have to be boring’, plus it will provide the chance to find out more about ‘living roofs’ and how to create them.

The visit will also provide the opportunity to see John’s experimental landscaping of the village primary school, and to hear his company’s vision of greening the modern city.

Following the tour there will be an opportunity to chat informally to John over a pub lunch (note: lunch is not included in the visit price).

See http://www.grassroofcompany.co.uk/for more information.

ATMOSPHEREs 2
FIELD RECORDING and the World of NATURAL SOUND
Thursday 8th - Monday 12th May

Touch and the Museum of Garden History present a second season of performances and events exploring the sounds of the natural world.

Click here for further information.

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Tickets for events can be booked by calling 020 7401 8865.

How to get to the Museum:
Buses – To Lambeth Road C10, 3 & 344
To Lambeth Palace Road 77 & 507 (507 - Mon-Fri only)
Underground – Lambeth North or Westminster
Train – Waterloo or Victoria, then bus.