Description
About the Tutor:
The Tutor for this Talk, Anna Ribo, divides her time between creating planting plans, advising on garden projects, and teaching planting and sketching. She was Head Gardener for 5 years at Long Barn – Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson’s first English garden, and now mainly gardens as part of garden restoration projects.
Anna’s interest in horticulture started as a child when she grew up in the parklands of a neglected Danish Renaissance castle (sadly as she says, not her own!) amongst the ‘ghosts’ of topiary, Victorian glasshouses and magnificent borders, with the old gardener (and his antique tractor) as a grumpy, knowledgeable friend.
Anna studied Fine Arts in Denmark, sharpening her sense of colour, shapes and instinct for making planting work visually. After living in London she re-found her roots and says she was lucky enough to be offered to retrain under our Work and Retrain as a Gardener (WRAG) Scheme on a beautiful, private Sussex estate. She is Royal Horticultural Society qualified at Hever Castle and has studied the Arts and Crafts of gardening at Great Dixter.
About This Talk:
In this session, attendees will look at choosing structural plants. Structure ties a scheme together, adds to the sense of place and can keep the garden going through winter. Adding structure is nearly always a must in a planting scheme and there is a large choice of plants to choose from to add to the atmosphere of a garden (rather than always choosing the same few plants). Anna will discuss the function of structural and anchor plants but also more transient structure, for instance in a mixed border, and there will be a discussion on a range of plants to hopefully increase attendees’ planting palettes.
Time will be included for questions.
Timings:
6pm – 8pm
Costs:
£25 Members | £35 Non-members
Important Booking Information:
- You will need a suitable PC/Laptop/Mac with a camera, and will need to download the free Zoom App from their website.
- This online talk will not be recorded.
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Photograph copyright and courtesy of Anna Ribo.
