Our lecturer, Timothy Walker, read Botany at University College Oxford. After graduation, he has worked at Oxford Botanic Garden, the Savill Garden Windsor, and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Between 1992 & 2000 the OBGHA won 4 gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show and in 2009 the Botanic Garden was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for providing imaginative educational programmes for adults, students and children, and the general public. In 2010 Timothy Walker was elected as a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London and presented a 3-part series of films on the history of botany on BBC 4.
In 1882 Gertrude Jekyll wrote a short but seminal article in "The Garden" in which she urged the readers to "remember that in a garden we are painting a picture". This lecture will have a wide appeal.
Tickets for Guests are £10 each payable on the door. The lecture at 2.30 pm follows our AGM at 2.00pm sharp. New Members are always welcome - annual subscription £50 - see our website for details. We meet on the 2nd Monday of the month, except July and August.
