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 11th: Graham Gough
• April 1st: William Friend
• April 15th: Val Bourne




THINKING AHEAD
Tuesday 11th March: 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.

MEDITERRANEAN PLANTS FOR THE EAST OF KENT
Tuesday 1st April: William Friend
William Friend is an Oxford trained plantsman. He has been passionate about plants since his childhood. His approach to gardening is re-creating plant habitats within the Garden. To understand a plant's cultural requirements, he feels it is essential to understand the climate and conditions from where it originates in the wild. Only when these conditions are met, can a plant thrive and naturalise.

THE NATURAL GARDENER
Tuesday 15th April: Val Bourne
Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer, photographer and lecturer and she gardens on the wind-swept Cotswolds at Spring Cottage - high above Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire. Her new third of an acre garden is still very much in the making and in 2007 Val wrote a series of six articles for the Royal Horticultural Society's The Garden magazine explaining how she gardens naturally without the use of chemicals - something Val has always believed in.

For further details about the lecture days please contact us: Goodnestone Park Gardens, Nr Wingham, Canterbury, Kent CT3 1PL Tel/Fax: 01304 840107

Click here to download the booking form.

More lectures will be held in the Autumn.