Glebe House Garden Lecture Series Digs In This Weekend
Glebe House Garden Lecture Series Digs In This Weekend
WOODBURY â 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 âEarthly Paradises: The Garden of Elizabethan Englandâ 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 Hendersonâs lecture will begin at 4 pm at St. Paulâs Episcopal Church in Woodbury.
In March, May Austen Woods will present âBritish Gardens: From the Romans to the Millennium.â Ms Woods is a British garden historian, lecturer and the author of Glass Houses and Visions of Arcadia.
Ms Woodâs lecture, on Sunday, March 12, at 4 pm, will also be at St. Paulâs Episcopal Church.
Wendy Hitchmough will present âThe Arts and Crafts Gardenâ 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 Hitchmoughâs lecture will be Sunday, April 2, at 4 pm, at St. Paulâs 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 weekendâs lecture, call 203/263-2855. St Paulâs Episcopal is on Main Street South (Route 6) in Woodbury.