Details of forthcoming events for the 2010 Spring and Summer season are given below.
Each of our events aims to educate, inspire or merely delight. Whatever your age or interest, we hope you will find something for your enjoyment.
It is likely that further events and activities will be added to this programme. Full details will be posted on our website, or will be promoted at Visitor Reception. We will also produce an Autumn/Winter Events leaflet, which will give details of events and seasonal activities for the period October 2010 to February 2011.
The staff and volunteers at The Garden House look forward to welcoming you.
How to book
Telephone office 01822 854769 to check availability.
Confirm booking by sending payment (cheques payable to ‘Fortescue Garden Trust’ to the address below.
The Garden House
Buckland Monachorum
Yelverton PL20 7LQ
Tel: 01822 854769
Email: office@thegardenhouse.org.uk
Web: www.thegardenhouse.org.uk
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9Sep
Guided Garden Tour
9 Sep @ 2:00pm - 9 Sep @ 3:00pm
Every Thursday afternoon April – September
Enjoy a guided tour of the garden. Just meet on the front lawn at 2.00 pm. (Minimum of 6 attending).
Tour time - approximately 1 hour. Normal admission. -
16Sep
Wisteria Pruning
16 Sep @ 2:00pm - 16 Sep @ 3:00pm
Head Gardener, Matt Bishop will demonstrate how to prune Wisteria. Meet outside the Tearooms 2.00 pm.
Normal admission.
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21Sep
Water Colour Workshop with Richard Mabey:
Painting Dartmoor21 Sep @ 10:30am - 21 Sep @ 4:00pm
The focus on this occassion is on painting tors and moors along with farm buildings.
The fee for each workshop is £27.50 and includes tea/coffee in both morning and afternoon sessions. Participants are able to use the Tearooms for lunch, or bring a picnic. Booking essential. -
23Sep
Guided Garden Tour
23 Sep @ 2:00pm - 23 Sep @ 3:00pm
Every Thursday afternoon April – September
Enjoy a guided tour of the garden. Just meet on the front lawn at 2.00 pm. (Minimum of 6 attending).
Tour time - approximately 1 hour. Normal admission. -
30Sep
Guided Garden Tour
30 Sep @ 2:00pm - 30 Sep @ 3:00pm
Every Thursday afternoon April – September
Enjoy a guided tour of the garden. Just meet on the front lawn at 2.00 pm. (Minimum of 6 attending).
Tour time - approximately 1 hour. Normal admission. -
2Oct
‘HOW TO GARDEN’ David Miles
2 Oct @ 10:30am - 2 Oct @ 12:30pm
A seasonal variation of David's popular gardening course focusing on topics relevant to autumn and winter gardening.
These courses, with their unusually small classes, are always very well subscribed so get your booking in early. The course runs over 8 Saturday mornings between 10.30 am and 12.30 pm starting 2 October and finishing 20 November.
Course fee £95.00. Booking essential.
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6Oct
Working for Margaret Thatcher
6 Oct @ 2:00pm - 6 Oct @ 3:30pm
Wednesday 6 October 2.00 pm
Talk and Tea with Sir Robin Nicholson FRS, Chairman of the Fortescue Garden Trust. Robin spent 5 years in Whitehall in the 1980s in the heyday of Margaret Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister working as her Chief Scientific Advisor. He is repeating this extremely popular and successful talk, which recounts the serious and amusing aspects of working closely with one of the great political figures of the 20th century.
£14.50 pp including tea. Booking essential.
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19Oct
Water Colour Workshop with Richard Mabey:
Snowy Scenes for Christmas19 Oct @ 10:00am - 19 Oct @ 4:00pm
Watercolour plus pen and ink for Christmas card production.
The fee for each workshop is £27.50 and includes tea/coffee in both morning and afternoon sessions. Participants are able to use the Tearooms for lunch, or bring a picnic. Booking essential.
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21Oct
Autumn Flower Arranging Demonstration
21 Oct @ 2:00pm - 21 Oct @ 3:30pm
Vivienne Thompson
Thursday 21 October 2.00 pm
Vivienne, Vice-Chairman of the Devon & Cornwall branch of NAFAS, is an outstanding professional flower arranger and will demonstrate how to make five different autumnal arrangements.
£15 pp. Booking essential
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25Oct
Coach Trip to Westonbirt Arboretum
25 Oct @ 8:00am - 25 Oct @ 7:00pm
Monday 25 October. Departing The Garden House at 8.00 am.
This trip has been arranged by popular request, and represents an opportunity to see a display of autumn colour recognised to be the finest in England.
Cost pp £31.50 including coach and admission .
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26Oct
The Great Garden Bug Hunt (children)
26 Oct @ 2:00pm - 26 Oct @ 3:30pm
Tuesday 26 October 2.00pm
Meet up at the Tearooms, and then explore the garden to discover the very best bugs that enjoy living at the Garden House!
Children attending this event - free admission. Normal admission for adults -
27Oct
101 Ways with Autumn Leaves - Workshop with Heather Searle (children)
27 Oct @ 2:00pm - 27 Oct @ 4:00pm
Wednesday 27 October A 'drop in' workshop from 2.00pm
Come along to the Tearooms and share your creative ideas on how we can use the beautiful autumn leaves collected at The Garden House. Take home your own autumn-leaf crown!
Children attending this event - free admission. Normal admission for adults. -
28Oct
Make a Mini Beast Mansion - Workshop with Heather Searle (children)
28 Oct @ 2:00pm - 28 Oct @ 3:30pm
Thursday 28 October 2.00pm
Meet at the Tearooms and learn all about hibernation. We will then go into the garden to help Heather complete a grand mini-beast mansion for the insects and small mammals who live at The Garden House. Make and take home a smaller version of a mini-beast mansion for the wildlife in your own garden.
Children attending this event free - admission. Normal admission for adults. -
30Oct
Halloween Trail (children)
30 Oct @ 6:00pm - 30 Oct @ 7:30pm
Saturday 30 October 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Pumpkin and fancy dress competitions. Bring the Halloween pumpkin that you have created at home and wear your scariest costume! We will light the pumpkins and place them outside the house before going on a ghostly garden Halloween trail, so bring a torch! You will then be able to enjoy a warming bowl of soup and special Halloween biscuits before going home!
Aduls and Children £4.00 pp (includes food) Limited numbers. Booking essential. -
2Nov
Christmas Sparkle – a Christmas Card Workshop with Tessa Clarke
2 Nov @ 10:30am - 2 Nov @ 4:00pm
Tuesday 2 November 10.30am – 4.00pm
Tessa will show you how to make your own sparkly Christmas cards ‘up-cycling’ materials such as sweet and chocolate wrappers (start saving your Quality Street wrappers now - they are especially good!), buttons, beads, sequins etc. Although decorative items will be available, do bring any items which could be recycled as well as scissors. Paper, card, glue, paint, etc. will be provided.
£27.50 pp. inc. tea & coffee. Bring a sandwich lunch. Booking essential. -
7Nov
A Sunday Lunch – Friends of The Garden House
7 Nov @ 12:30pm - 7 Nov @ 2:30pm
Sunday 7 November. 12.30pm – 2.30pm.
A special event for Friends of The Garden House only. Liz Ingram will serve an old-fashioned 2-course ‘Sunday Roast’ in the Licensed Tearoom. Follow lunch by taking an afternoon stroll around the garden – last chance to see the autumn colour.
£15.95 pp. Booking essential. -
1Dec
The Garden House Christmas Fair
1 Dec @ 10:00am - 1 Dec @ 1:30pm
Wednesday 1 December 10am – 1.30pm
Local crafts in the three reception rooms of the house. A chance to buy Christmas gifts. Coffee and cakes. Entrance by raffle ticket (£1.00 per ticket)
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5Dec
Christmas Lunches in the Tearooms
5 Dec @ 12:30pm - 19 Dec @ 2:30pm
Sun 5 December, Sun 12 December and Sunday 19 December, 12.30pm – 2.30pm
Liz Ingram will serve traditional 2-course Christmas lunches (with all the trimmings!) in the Licensed Tearooms. Enjoy a walk around the winter garden.
£19.50 pp. (Children under 12 - £10.00). Booking essential. -
11Dec
Christmas Decorations Workshop with Barbara Beckerlegg
11 Dec @ 10:30am - 11 Dec @ 3:30pm
Saturday 11 December 10.30am – 3.30pm
Participants will be able to choose to make two out of three festive decorations – Christmas Wreath, Christmas Pomander or a Christmas table decoration. We will provide beautiful foliage from The Garden House along with necessary foam/wire, etc. Please bring scissors, ‘church’ candles if you choose to make a table decoration, as well as ribbon and/or other decorative items you might like to add to your work.
Coffee & tea provided, but please bring a sandwich lunch.
£37.50 pp. Limited numbers. Booking essential. -
10Feb
Snowdrop Study Day
10 Feb @ 9:30am - 10 Feb @ 3:30pm
Thursday 10 February 2011 9.30am – 3.30pm
Matt Bishop, Head Gardener at The Garden House is a recognised expert on Galanthus and is rapidly developing the number and volume of cultivars of this beautiful genus. The study day is an opportunity for Snowdrop enthusiasts to meet up at a new venue. Top speakers will deliver the following morning lectures:
The Snowdrop Factory – Alan Street (Growing and showing Snowdrops at Avon Bulbs).
Snowdrops in the Caucasus - Christopher Brickell CBE VMH (A closer look at Caucasian Snowdrop taxonomy).
The Rich and the Rare, Beyond Compare – Matt Bishop (Recent cultivar developments).
Lunch will be followed by a tour of the garden and a sale of bulbs.
£60.00 pp (including coffee on arrival, lunch and tea before departure). Limited numbers. Booking essential. -
1Apr
FORTESCUE GARDEN HOUSE LECTURE
1 Apr @ 7:30pm - 1 Apr @ 10:00pm
Diary Note We are delighted and honoured to announce that the 4th annual FORTESCUE GARDEN HOUSE LECTURE is to be delivered by MR ROY LANCASTER OBE VMH on 1 April 2011 (7.30pm for 8.00pm) at the Postgraduate Plymouth Medical Centre. Roy’s talk is entitled ‘Nothing but the Best’ and will celebrate the Fortescue Garden Trust’s Golden Jubilee year. Further information will be available shortly.
