| Event Name: | Talk - Three decades in the garden at Highgrove |
| Description: | Meet Debs Goodenough, Head Gardener at Highgrove, and find out how this royal garden is making history in the 21st century.
Come and listen to Debs Goodenough, the Head Gardener at Highgrove, as she takes us on a journey through the garden's past three decades, describing its development as a personal garden, a traditional estate using sustainable, organic principles, and a working garden.
Debs Goodenough is currently Head Gardener to The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall at Highgrove. Training initially in horticulture in Canada, Debs combined her desire to travel with training in her chosen profession, by working as an intern at Denver Botanic Gardens, then coming to Britain to train at Kew.
As Debs was planning to return to Canada, she met her husband, Simon, a supervisor at Kew Gardens, and continued to work at Kew in the area of plant conservation for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Moving from London, Debs spent ten
years working with her husband at Ventnor Botanic Gardens on the Isle of Wight, where she ran the nurseries and show houses before becoming Head Gardener at Osborne House, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s country home.
For 12 years Debs coordinated the restoration of this 300 acre estate and managed other historic landscapes. In 2008 she became Head Gardener to HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, with gardening responsibilities in all their properties which are run organically.
This lecture has been generously supported by the Dr.H.Shawdon Charitable Trust. |
| Type of Event: | Discussions - Talks - Debates - Lectures |
| Event Agenda: | Speaker: Debs Goodenough, Head Gardener at Highgrove
Tickets: General admission £5, Friends of Kew £4 |
| Event Location: | Kew Gardens |
| Event City: | Surrey |
| Type of Venue: | Park - Garden - Open Space |
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| Directions: | Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Kew Gardens
By bus
Routes 65 and 391 stop close to the entrance gates. Routes 237 and 267 stop at Kew Bridge station.
By car or coach
Kew Gardens is located at Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, and is well signposted from all the major local roads. The South Circular (A205) passes the north-east corner of Kew Gardens and Kew Road (A307) forms the eastern border.
Please note that Kew has no coach park, however coach parking is free on Kew Road (A307) after 10am. Groups are advised to arrive at either Victoria Gate or Main Gate, but note that only Main Gate has a designated coach drop off point. See our groups pages for more information.
From the west :
take M4 (exit Junction 2) or A4
upon reaching the Chiswick roundabout, follow signs to Kew Gardens to join the A205 and cross the River Thames at Kew Bridge
turn right immediately after the bridge on Kew Green, and then right down Ferry Lane to reach the Kew Gardens car park
From north London:
follow the North Circular until you reach the Chiswick roundabout, then follow directions from here as above
From the south or west:
from the M3 continue on the A316
upon reaching the Richmond roundabout, fork left on to Kew Road (A307)
you will then see the Pagoda to your left and then the wall on your left which is the boundary to the Gardens
there is limited parking along the Kew Road here after 10am, closest to Victoria Gate and Lion Gate
alternatively, to reach the car park, continue along this road and upon reaching Kew Green turn left and follow the signs
From the South Circular Road:
follow the South Circular Road past Kew Retail Park and under a railway bridge
at the next traffic light junction, where the A307 joins from the left, go slowly through the junction and immediately turn left into Kew Green (NOT sharp left into the A307, as this is no left turn) |
| Event Start Date | 26-Jan-12 |