WINTER 2010
- Art
- Birding
- Design
- Edibles
- Edwards
Lecture Series - Floral Design
- Gardening
- History
of
the Garden - Photography
- Mother's Day
- Travel with TBG
- The Travelling Gardener
- Wellness
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| Come inside on a cold winter Sunday afternoon to enjoy an interesting lecture, hot coffee or tea and dessert! This exciting new series with lecturer Donna Bilak will tell you about the development of gardens and how these early gardens both reflected and influenced the societies which created them. Offered in partnership with the Leaside Horticultural Society. |
Petals
and Metals:
Floral Jewellery in France, England
and America,1600-1960
[PG10W29] Donna Bilak
Explore the beauty of jewellery and discover its relationship with exotic
bloom cultivation and elite collecting practices in France, England and
America across three and a half centuries. Find out how botany, contemporary
fashion, etiquette and technological developments influenced floral jewellery
design and production.
Sunday, January 24, 1 to 3 p.m.
Public $30 / TBG & Leaside Members $20
Reconfiguring
Eden:
European Garden Design, 1500-1800
[PG10W30] Donna Bilak
Once upon a time... Early modern garden design was laden with meaning,
whether as the dwelling place of gods and goddesses or as an exotic plant
museum. Above all, the garden was a declaration of status for European
nobles and wealthy merchants. Discover how classical mythology informed
European garden design in this period, learn about the influx of plants
from the New World and the East and explore the reasons behind the shift
from a formal parterre layout to the picturesque landscape that characterized
the 18th century garden aesthetic.
Sunday, January 31, 1 to 3 p.m.
Public $30 / TBG & Leaside Members $20
Plant
vs. Plant:
John Evelyn and Urban Planning in the
(Pre)Industrial Age
[PG10W31] Donna Bilak
We are not the first period to experience environmental issues. In 1661,
John Evelyn, a fellow of the Royal Society, published a radical call for
urban reform in London. The Fumifugium was an invective against industry-related
pollution and proposed girding the city with a fragrant hedge among other
horticultural solutions. This lecture explores Evelyn’s work and
how it resonated in the 19th century public park movement in England and
America which emerged in response to the Industrial Revolution.
Sunday, February 7, 1 to 3 p.m.
Public $30 / TBG & Leaside Members $20
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