This talk and all our lectures are FREE for Friends of the Botanical Gardens to attend. Members of the public are also welcome to join us on payment of £5 at the door on the day. Live talks are held in the Education Centre in the grounds of the Botanical Gardens - easily accessed via the Thompson Road Entrance.
Please note that this talk replaces ‘Creating a Tropical Garden Using Hardy Plants’
This summer Sheffield Botanical Gardens has been partnering with the Gardens Trust to celebrate Scottish landscape gardener, horticulturalist and writer Robert Marnock (1800 - 1889). As well as being designer and curator of our botanical gardens in Sheffield and the one at Regent’s Park in London, Marnock undertook a substantial number of private commissions across the country, plus sites in Italy and Belgium. He had a significant impact on the landscape of Sheffield and elsewhere.
The talk will explore his life and career, as well as some of the unusual and engaging events that have been happening around the country as part of the celebrations. This will also be a further opportunity to view the original editions of Marnock’s Floricultural Magazine, which were on display in the Dorothy Fox Centre in June.
Our speakers are Jill Sinclair, landscape historian, trustee of the Garden Trust, member of the executive of the Friends of the Gardens and one of the organisers of Celebrating Marnock and Laura Alston, Education and Engagement Co-ordinator for the Gardens and lead for the Celebrating Marnock project.