Programme
All our speakers are widely know with international reputations as gardeners, journalists, authors or television presenters. All are experienced lecturers. We have created a series for which the programme on each occasion will be as follows:

• 10.30: arrival, coffee
• 11.00am: lecture followed by questions and discussion
• 12.30pm: lunch
• 2.00pm: practical session in Goodnestone gardens picking up the theme of the morning’s lecture
• 3.30-4pm: tea and departure

There will be plants available for purchase at the nursery and a number of the lecturers will have copies of their books available for purchase.

• March 23rd: Helen Yemm
• April 7th: Graham Gough
• April 20th: George Plumptre

For full details and booking form please click here.

GARDEN TROUBLESHOOTING WITH HELEN YEMM

Monday 23rd March: Helen Yemm

Helen Yemm is perhaps best known for her weekly Telegraph Gardening 'Thorny Problems' column. Helen taught basic gardening for years, and was the presenter of the BBC's much-repeated GARDENING FROM SCRATCH series. She is, however, primarily a muddy-gloves-and-wellies gardener. In recent years having given up her much loved but labour-intensive acreage in East Sussex, open under the National Gardens Scheme, to replant and reshape a 'challenging' smaller village garden, with the ultimate intention of mowing as little as possible. As far as lecturing is concerned, de-bunking and de-mystifying are her speciality - no question is too daft and (fingers crossed) no problem insurmountable.

THE WELL WOVEN GARDEN

April 7th: Graham Gough

Graham Gough is one of the country's most respected nurserymen/plantsmen. His nursery and garden, Marchants Hardy Plants, has gained an enviable reputation having appeared in virtually every significant gardening magazine and paper since its establishment in Sussex in 1998.

In addition, Graham is in great demand as a speaker and his informative talks take him throughout the country, to Canada and to the U.S. Consultations and garden design also begin to play an increasingly important role and an invitation by Lady FitzWalter led Graham's successful planting design for the much praised Gravel Garden at Goodnestone.

Graham works closely with his Textile Designer wife Lucy Goffin at Marchants. He will explore the idea of the garden as textile, embracing also colour, form and pattern and how Lucy's work and others have influenced him in his working way with plants.

FIFTY YEARS AT GOODNESTONE PARK GARDEN

Monday 20th April: George Plumptre

George Plumptre was born and brought up at Goodnestone Park and has seen the garden develop from a state of decay to international renown. George has enjoyed a career of some 30 years as a gardening author, journalist and lecturer. He has published ten books on gardens, the latest of which, Heritage Gardens, was published in 2007. During the mid-1990s he was Gardening Correspondent for The Times and he has contributed to many other publications, most notably Country Life. He has lectured on gardens in the UK, USA and South Africa.