“The Making of RHS Garden Bridgewater” with Marcus Chilton-Jones
The annual Percy Picton Memorial Lecture is just under a week away!
Tickets cost £15 with proceeds going to the Percy Picton Memorial Fund, which supports horticultural students. Pay on the door or avoid the queue by buying an advance ticket – these are available from The Picton Garden / Old Court Nurseries (open daily 11am – 5pm).
We hope that lots of you will take part in the Ernest Ballard Aster Competition. Bring along a vase of Michaelmas Daisies, preferably mixed varieties; it’s one entry per person and a trophy is awarded to the best exhibit.
Doors open from 7pm for drinks and nibbles at Colwall Village Hall leaving plenty of opportunity to socialize and to admire the entries to the Aster Competition; the talk will begin at 7.30 pm. Monthly plant sales have finished for the year but please bring along some cash to buy raffle tickets.
Marcus started his new role as Curator of RHS Garden Bridgewater in January 2017, joining the project from the Dorothy Clive Garden in North Staffordshire, where he had been working for eight years.
His horticultural career has taken him to the National Trust’s Morden Hall Park in London, behind the scenes at BBC’s Berryfields, and to the Italian gardens at Trentham. Marcus is also now a regular panelist on Gardeners’ Question Time.
“My personal ambition for Bridgewater is that it becomes the number-one garden in the north west of England. If we achieve that then I can reset the objectives!”
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