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For more information on the Network events please
contact us on events@walledgardens.net
FORUM 2010
September 25th and 26th
This year the Network will be holding a two-day Forum for the first time. Based at the Dryburgh Abbey Hotel, nr St Boswells, there will be talks on Scottish walled kitchen gardens, both past and present. Speakers will include Kenneth Cox (writer and author of Scotland for Gardeners), Anna Baker-Cresswell (Gardening Leave), Melissa Simpson (Gardens & Designed Landscapes Advisor, NTS), Kate Rycroft (Amisfield walled garden). Others to be confirmed.
The following day we will visit a range of gardens in the area, both public & private, for behind-the-scenes tours with the head gardeners of Mertoun, Floors Castle, Harmony & Priorwood, Philiphaugh and Bemersyde.
On the Saturday talks will begin at 10.00am (registration from 9.30am) and finish at 5.00pm.
The coach will leave the Dryburgh Abbey Hotel at 9.15am on the Sunday and we will aim to return to the hotel by 4.30 – 5.00pm.
Booking forms and further details will be sent out to members very soon, meanwhile you can register interest by emailing fiona.grant@walledgardens.net
THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE, 16TH OCTOBER 2009
Our first venture of making links with productive walled gardens in Europe was a great success, with over 100 delegates, and an excellent range of speakers: from Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK.
 A group of delegates in the Privy Garden
You can download a Report on Proceedings and transcripts of some of the talks:
Report on Proceedings
‘The Museum Garden at Castle Gaasbeek: the making and keeping of a living laboratory’
Herman van den Bossche
‘A Little Bit of Britain – two late 18th century walled kitchen gardens in Northern Germany’
Dr. Kristin Püttmann
THE HISTORIC GARDEN BURSARY SCHEME
Would you like to help you to advance your horticultural career and acquire practical skills and knowledge in these kinds of areas: propagation for historic and botanic gardens, record keeping for plant collections, management of veteran trees or the restoration of walled gardens?
The Historic and Botanic Garden Bursary Scheme enables enthusiastic and committed horticulturalists to increase their horticultural and other technical skills through practically based training placements, in a range of historic and botanic gardens.
Find out more by going to www.hbgbs.org.uk
The 2005 Forum, "Research, Recording and Renovation" was held at Tatton Park in Cheshire 
You can download the following talks.
WALLED KITCHEN GARDEN FORUM 2004
Restoration and Sustainability
The 2004 Forum was held at West Dean Gardens, Chichester, West Sussex on 30 October.
You can download copies of the following talks:
For more information on other Network events, please
contact us on fiona.grant@walledgardens.net
Download a summary of the Walled Kitchen Gardens Forum held in
Ledbury, Hereford, October 2001.
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