Glebe House Garden Lecture Series Digs In This Weekend

WOODBURY — The Gertrude Jekyll Garden at Glebe House Museum will host a series of lectures by three noted architectural and garden historians. The lectures, once each month for the next three months, are sponsored in cooperation with the Royal Oak Foundation.

Dr Paula Henderson will open the series with “Earthly Paradises: The Garden of Elizabethan England” on Sunday, February 6. Dr Henderson is an architectural and garden historian, with a specialty in English homes and gardens of the Tudor and Stuart periods.

Dr Henderson’s lecture will begin at 4 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Woodbury.

In March, May Austen Woods will present “British Gardens: From the Romans to the Millennium.” Ms Woods is a British garden historian, lecturer and the author of Glass Houses and Visions of Arcadia.

Ms Wood’s lecture, on Sunday, March 12, at 4 pm, will also be at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Wendy Hitchmough will present “The Arts and Crafts Garden” to conclude the series. Ms Hitchmough is a British garden historian, lecturer and the author of The Arts and Crafts Home and Arts and Crafts Gardens.

A book signing will follow the lecture. Ms Hitchmough’s lecture will be Sunday, April 2, at 4 pm, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Tickets for all three lectures can be purchased for $30; individual lectures are $12. Reservation checks, with the lecture date indicated on the memo line, should be sent to Glebe House Museum, PO Box 245, Woodbury, CT 06798.

For further information and for reservations for this weekend’s lecture, call 203/263-2855. St Paul’s Episcopal is on Main Street South (Route 6) in Woodbury.