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Saturday 22nd June 2013
Birdwatching
Walk
Wapley Hill Car Park
Saturday 22nd June, 7.30 am - 9.30
am
Pete Jennings, local ornithologist who has been the County Bird Recorder for Radnorshire for 25 years will take you to see and hear birds of a summer morning. Wapley Hill has an ancient fort with commanding views of the surrounding countryside and is a well-known landmark on Mortimer’s Trail.
Directions: From Titley take the B4355 towards
Presteigne. After half a mile take a right turn to Staunton on
Arrow.
In Stansbatch turn left and follow road for approx one mile. Wapley
Hill car park is on the left.
Maximum Number: 12
Price: Free
The Garden in the
Clouds
Saturday 22nd June, 9.30am Titley Village
Hall
The Garden in the Clouds is a real place: six
bracken-invaded acres and some tumble-down stone walls around a
cottage, Tair-Ffynnon, 1,300 feet up
in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park — so
high, in fact, that much of the time the place sits in cloud. Here,
Antony and Verity
Woodward and their three children joyfully subsist in ‘astonishing
inconvenience, up a long, pot-holed track with several gates, 45
minutes from the
nearest pint of milk.’ Self-confessed hopeless romantics, their
offbeat ‘Not Garden’, ‘Infinity Vegetable Patch’ and box balls
‘rolling’ through upland
flower meadows form what is perhaps Britain's highest garden.
Antony's book, The
Garden in the Clouds, which won the Hay Festival /
National
Trust Outdoors Book of the Year 2011, is his account of this adventure.
Price:
£7.50
The London Olympic Park and other
stories: dramatic adventures
with planting in large and small scale
landscapes
Saturday 22nd June, 10.45am Titley
Village Hall
Nigel Dunnett is Professor of Planting Design at
the University of Sheffield. His background is in ecology,
horticulture, plant science and design, and he integrates all three
in his work. For the past 15 years he has undertaken in-depth
research into the design, implementation and management of urban
sustainable plantings that combine simple maintenance, visual
drama, and high environmental impact. He has pioneered the
introduction of innovative approaches to the integration of
vegetation into the built environment in the UK, with books on rain
gardens, green roofs, and naturalistic planting design. Together
with his colleague, Professor James Hitchmough, Nigel was the
principal planting design and horticultural consultant for the
London 2012 Olympic Park, and he acts widely as a consultant on
planting design and environmental horticulture. For the past three
years Nigel has exhibited main show gardens at the Chelsea Flower
Show that aim to showcase creative approaches to the interface
between ecology, biodiversity and
horticulture to a wider audience.
Nigel Dunnett will discuss his work with Noel Kingsbury.
Price: £7.50
Children's woodland craft
Saturday 22nd
June,
11.30am, Stagg Meadow
Sam Goddard, who leads woodland craft for children for the Cart Shed, will be engaging children in outdoor activities on the meadow. Amongst other things, there will be a chance to make something out of wood and to light a fire and make popcorn. The session will last for 1 ½ hours. Ages 6-12
Price:
£5
The servant in the
garden
Saturday 22nd June, 12.00pm Titley
Village Hall
Anna Pavord has had three gardens in her life.
The first in Sussex, in what she called her caretaker years,
learning to look after established plants under the eye of a
neighbour who would shout from an upstairs window: ‘Don’t dig
there: Madonna lilies, you’ll ruin them with that fork.’ In Dorset
she resurrected the 1.5 acre garden of a Queen Anne rectory, grew
espaliered fruit trees against its walls and “loved it with a
passion”. After 35 years, with their family grown up, she and her
husband moved to a stone house and garden tucked into a Dorset
combe surrounded by sheep pasture. Here she is content to sit for
hours watching buzzards wheel over her head. “I am always
subservient to a garden,” she says, “which must respond to its
setting.” Anna is gardening correspondent for The Independent and
the author of several widely praised and much loved books including
Tulip, The Border
Book and her latest, The Curious Gardener.
Anna will be in conversation with Jane
Wheatley.
Price: £7.50
Children's woodland craft
Saturday
22nd
June, 2.00pm, Stagg
Meadow
Sam Goddard, who leads woodland craft for children for the Cart Shed, will be engaging children in outdoor activities on the meadow. Amongst other things, there will be a chance to make something out of wood and to light a fire and make popcorn. The session will last for 1 ½ hours. Ages 6-12
Price:
£5
The Cart Shed, Devereux Farm,
HR4 8QN
Saturday 22nd June,
3.00pm
On a guided walk around his arable and grassland
farm, Patrick Wrixon shows how modern methods of food production
combine with environmental measures to promote wild life and
natural habitats. There will be an opportunity to learn about
energy conservation on the farm through the use of wind power and
solar energy, and to hear about the Cart Shed charity, set up on
the farm to provide opportunities for the unemployed and those in
poor health to acquire new skills.
Distance: 3 miles, easy
walking.
Time: Two hours
Directions: Take the B4355 from Titley to Kington. At the
roundabout turn left and take the A4111 to Eardisley. Just beyond
Eardisley turn left on the A4112. At Sarnesfield, turn right on the
A480 to Hereford. After Norton Canon, turn left on the B4230 to
Weobley. The farm is about 300yards on the left.
Maximum number: 25
Price: £6
Herefordshire Nature
Trust
Quebb Corner Meadow and Upper Welson
Marsh.
Meet at Quebb Corner Meadow
HR3 6LP
Saturday 22nd June,
4.00pm
Neville Hart, reserve manager, will lead a walk
that takes in two very different reserves managed by Herefordshire
Nature Trust. For many years now, Quebb Corner Meadow has been
managed as a hay meadow with aftermath grazing and without the use
of herbicides or artificial fertilisers. We hope
to show you species typical of old meadows: pignut, lesser knapweed
and in the wetter areas, lesser spotted orchids amongst others.
There is about
a 1 mile walk along a public footpath to Upper Welson Marsh. The
present-day marsh, now surrounded by farm pasture, is the only
surviving fragment
of a once much larger wetland area. It is a beautiful secret spot
surrounded by dappled woodland. We hope to see the Marsh
Helleborine, orchids,
ragged robin and cotton grass.
Directions: Take the
B4355 from Titley to Kington. At the roundabout turn left and take
the A4111. After about 3 miles you will pass Bollingham
House
and church on the right. Half way down the hill turn right at a lay
by. The meadow is about 100 yards down the lane on the right. There
will be parking at Little Quebb Farm, turn left just past Quebb
Meadow.
Distance: 2 miles, flat walk,
some rough, occasionally muddy paths. One stile.
Time: Two and a half hours
Maximum number: 15
Price: £5
Supper and Cabaret SOLD OUT
Saturday 22nd June, 7.30 pm, Titley
Village Hall
Price:
£25
Sunday 23rd June 2013
Birdwatching Walk
Wapley Hill Car Park
Sunday 23rd June, 7.30 am - 9.30 am
Pete Jennings, local ornithologist who has been the County Bird Recorder for Radnorshire for 25 years will take you to see and hear birds of a summer morning. Wapley Hill has an ancient fort with commanding views of the surrounding countryside and is a well-known landmark on Mortimer’s Trail.
Directions: From Titley take the B4355
towards Presteigne. After half a mile take a right turn to Staunton
on Arrow.
In Stansbatch turn left and follow road for approx one mile. Wapley
Hill car park is on the left.
Maximum
Number: 12
Price: Free
Noel
Kingsbury
In conversation with Stephen
Anderton
Sunday 23 June, 9.30 am, Titley Village Hall
Noel is now on his second Herefordshire garden. He will talk to Stephen Anderton about his gardening philosophy, his innovative research on plant performance, his criticism of the organic movement and the challenge of being a garden writer for a global audience. Noel Kingsbury has been described as “the voice of authority with renegade undertones”. He is best known for his promotion of naturalistic planting design. He has written some 20 books on garden matters, as well as the only history of plant breeding. He lives near Hay-on-Wye. Stephen Anderton is gardening correspondent of The Times, broadcaster, lecturer, consultant, and author of books including Discovering Welsh Gardens and the biography, Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter. He lives in the Black Mountains.
Price:
£7.50
Peter
Clay
Seduced by plants
Sunday 23rd June, 10.45am. Titley Village
Hall
Peter Clay was 42, a highly paid London
advertising executive when he inherited a house set in 15 acres of
windy Herefordshire hillside and got the gardening bug. But his
initial vision of creating a garden turned to frustration: “There
were books and garden centres,” he says, “but nothing to help
me with design and planting plans.” Within a year he had founded
Crocus, the online plant retailer, and filled a gap in the market:
“Our ideal customer
was me,” he says, “keen but clueless.” Crocus has since won a
clutch of gold medals at Chelsea and Peter has achieved the garden
he wanted:
the naturalistic perennial borders designed by Tom Stuart Smith,
the restored orchard of ancient perry pears, the wildflower
planting which links
the garden to its pastoral setting.
Peter Clay will be in conversation with Jane Wheatley
Price:
£7.50
Mirabel Osler
Letting Go
Sunday 23rd June, 12.00pm. Titley Village
Hall
When Mirabel Osler wrote her most celebrated
book, A Gentle Plea for Chaos, she was arguing not for laissez
faire – she and her husband Michael had found themselves as in
thrall to their country garden as any committed creator of a
private paradise. Rather she was making a case for what she calls
percipience: a response to the unexpected, a stillness which allows
for reciprocity between the gardener and the free will of
plants
– a kind of cultivated anarchy. A quarter of a
century later, working alone in her town garden, she finds the
intervening years have eroded her gardening vigour and the
far
end becomes dishevelled: “We, the garden and I,
are losing control at the same pace.
Only my
courtyard still fizzes [with] colourful flourishes, declamatory
embellishments.”
In her gorgeous, naughty, poetic
memoir, The Rain Tree, she notes a wild duck bringing eight newly
hatched ducklings to her back door: “How could I not rejoice
that
orderliness had been usurped by wildlife?”
Mirabel will talk to Anthony Powers about love, loss and
gardening.
Price: £7.50
Clare Foster and
Robert Myers
Trends in Garden Design
Sunday 23rd June, 1.30 pm. Titley Village
Hall
Peter Clay will chair a discussion on recent trends in garden design. Clare Foster is currently Gardening Editor of House and Garden magazine and was previously Editor of Gardens Illustrated. She is also the author of several books including Painterly Plants, Your Allotment and Compost. Robert Myers is a landscape architect and garden designer, with a private practice in Kington, Herefordshire. Robert has won five Gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. Recently completed projects include major landscape projects at Hereford Cathedral Close and Exeter Cathedral Green, as well as a new rose garden for the RHS Garden at Wisley.
Price:
£7.50
Wild Flower
Meadow walk
Herefordshire Nature Trust
Sunday 23rd June at
3.00pm
Neville Hart, reserve manager, will lead a walk
that starts at the North Sturts car park. The seven fields which
make up Sturts North lie on the edge of the Letton Lake basin. Much
of the land is flat or gently undulating, but in the two
northernmost fields, Long Meadow and Orchard Meadow, the land
slopes upwards towards higher ground. Damp hollows and drier ridges
form a mosaic, each with its own microhabitat and typical species.
In wetter depressions Great Burnet, Meadowsweet, Lady’s Smock,
Greater Bird’s-foot Trefoil and Ragged Robin are frequent.
The drier slightly higher ground is particularly herb-rich with
Betony, Common Knapweed, Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Devil’s-bit
Scabious, Tormentil
and Meadow Vetchling. Scarce species like the curious Adder’s
Tongue fern and Dyer’s Greenweed may also be found.
Directions: Take the B4355 from
Titley to Kington. At the roundabout turn left and take the A4111
to Eardisley. Just beyond Eardisley
turn left on the A4112 towards Leominster. In Kinnersley turn right
to Letton. North Sturts car park is marked.
Distance: 3 miles, mainly flat
and boggy.
Time: Two and a half hours
Maximum Number: 20
Price: £5
Nature Walk on the Green Lane, Titley
Titley Village Hall
Sunday 23rd June, 3.00 pm.
A walk with David Lovelace, an expert on woodland and Herefordshire environmental history. Starting at Titley village hall, the walk will take about 2 hours. It will be a circle taking in one of Herefordshire’s green lanes with scenic views over the Arrow valley. You will pass the ruins of Eywood house and the Titley pool nature reserve. This is an area of great rural history.
This walk is being run by our partners Visit Herefordshire as part of the Herefordshire Walking Festival
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