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This is soon to be the new website of the Lancashire Gardens Trust
We exist to protect and preserve the designed landscapes of Lancashire.
To read the announcement from acting Chairman, Elaine Taylor please follow this link
Our next visit.......
Visit to Holden Clough Nursery, Holden,
Bolton-by- Bowland, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 4PF
Friday 13th June 2008
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FULL DETAILS AND APPLICATION FORM
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Holden Clough Nursery situated in the picturesque Ribble Valley is a working nursery in the process of restoration. It was established in 1927 by Richard Milne-Redhead primarily as an Alpine Plant Nursery.
PROGRAMME
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11 30 am Coffee/Tea/Biscuits
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11.45 An illustrated talk by Peter Foley on his nursery and plants
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1 pm Lunch at the Village Hall or eat out. Please bring a packed lunch if
required
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2.40 Tour of Holden Clough Nursery with Peter Foley
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Tea and scones
We do hope you will be able to join us. Tickets cost just £6 each.
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Holden Clough Website
July 23rd : Croxteth Walled Garden, Liverpool.
This was built for the Earl of Sefton around 1850 and occupies 2 acres. It had to produce an all-year-round supply of fresh fruit, vegetables and cut flowers for the Hall, and this continued unbroken until the death of the last Earl in 1972. It has been
restored to full working order. In the glasshouses this year the William Roscoe Collection of exotic and tropical plants is on display to celebrate the year of Capital of Culture. We shall have a guided tour of the walled garden and the collection of
cacti, orchids and pelargoniums.
September 17th Smithills Hall, Bolton
First recorded in early mediaeval times, the hall reached a zenith in Tudor times but then fell to its lowest point. Rescued by a rising industrialist in 1801, it rose to glory again with changes in its landscape design during two more important periods.
The introductory lecture will take place in one of the Hall's splendid rooms and will feature landscape plans from its Tudor, Regency and late Victorian periods, together with old estate photographs. A guided tour after lunch will include the
identification of landscape features from all the periods.
18th November CELEBRITY LECTURE
By Fergus Garrett, head gardener of Great Dixter, the famous garden owned by Christopher Lloyd until his recent death. In "GREAT DIXTER, OLD AND NEW", Fergus will discuss and describe the planting at Dixter, risky, controversial, intensive, always
stunning, amid the 100-year-old setting of an Arts and Crafts design by Edwin Lutyens. Christ Church Parish Hall, Heaton, Bolton 7.30 pm. (This is close to junction 6 on the M61)
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FULL DETAILS AND APPLICATION FORM
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