LIVE TALKS are on Saturdays at 2pm, tickets £10 to include refreshments, in the Music Room at Earl Stonham House, Church Lane, Earl Stonham IP14 5ED, by kind permission of Andrew Deacon.
ZOOM TALKS are on Thursdays at 6pm and prior booking is now required, tickets £5. You will then be sent the Zoom link. We are currently limited to 100 participants for each talk, but access to the recording will be available to ticket holders for two weeks afterwards.
To book a place, you can now book and pay online.
You can email your request to our secretary, Loesje Houghton, at suffolkgt.secretary@gmail.com and make a payment by bank transfer.
If you wish to pay by bank transfer please pay:
Suffolk Gardens Trust;
Barclays Bank;
Sort Code: 20 98 07;
Account NO: 70105384
When booking please email suffolkgt.secretary@gmail.com stating your name and address, the date for which you are booking, the number of tickets, and whether these are for members or guests and total amount paid into our Bank. We will then confirm your booking.
By Kate Elliott
2.00pm
Tickets £10
Columbine Hall is a moated Manor House that was bought by Hew Stevenson and his late wife, Leslie Geddes-Brown, in 1993. They restored the house, gardens and grounds, which have featured in many books (including Secret Gardens of East Anglia by Barbara Segall) and magazines including Country Living, Country Life, Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden and The Kitchen Garden. George Carter designed the one-acre garden ‘platform’ within and enhanced by the moat.
Kate is Head Gardener at Columbine Hall, having come there at 16, straight from school, and has been in charge of the gardens for 28 years. She was a finalist in 2009’s Professional Gardener of the Year and is a member of the Professional Gardeners’ Guild. In this personal account she will be talking about her love of gardening and the part she has played in the development of Columbine Hall’s gardens.