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Gardens in the Wild
Castle House
Eardisley
Hereford
HR3 6NT

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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

 

 

 

Antony Woodward

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. Ant
ony'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

 


Nigel Dunnett

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

 

 


Anna Pavord  SOLD OUT

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

 

 


Farm Walk

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

 


Wild Flower Meadow walk  SOLD OUT

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

 

Join us for a delicious three course supper celebrating the best of Herefordshire's summer produce. Includes a welcome glass of wine, local cider or perry. Plus: live entertainment from The Times gardening correspondent Stephen Anderton and soprano Lis Priday

If you require a vegetarian meal please email info@gardensinthewild.org

 

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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