'Together, we can change the world. Will you join us?’ Isabella Tree
Join us in The Apple House for this event where three inspirational and influential women in garden design and social therapeutic horticulture explore and celebrate and explore the ways in which green spaces can be the solution to some of our most pressing problems, from loneliness to climate change, with:
- Lottie Delamain Garden Designer and Author of Gardens That Can Save The World
- Kali Hamerton-Stove Co-Founder and Project Director of The Glasshouse Social Enterprise
- Dr Sue Stuart-Smith Psychiatrist, Co-Founder of The Serge Hill Project for Gardening Creativity and Health CIC, Author of The Well Gardened Mind
This one-off event marks the publication of Lottie Delamain’s acclaimed book Gardens That Can Save The World and is hosted to help raise funds for one of the featured projects, The Serge Hill Project. Tickets include the talk, a book signing, a welcome drink and the chance to explore Tom Stuart-Smith’s Plant Library of over 2000 perennials and bulbs.
More information about the event
Gardens and green spaces are at the vanguard of positive change. They are modern-day crucibles for ideas and innovation that are providing solutions to some of our most persistent problems, whether loneliness or illness, flooding or drought. Around the world, green-fingered thinkers and pioneering plants-people are harnessing the power of the wild to quietly find small-scale strategies to reverse these ills.
It’s no longer just about aesthetics, but about what the great outdoors can do – save water, transform mental health, bridge social divides, educate vulnerable children, reimagine polluting industries and provide much reason for optimism in a rapidly changing world. Celebrating both the garden and gardener as integral players in a healthier future this book presents a series of strategies that will help the reader reevaluate the potential that lies in green spaces near them by looking at how they have been applied in gardens around the world.
Join us for an evening of discussion as leading influential figures in garden design and social therapeutic horticulture explore and celebrate how gardens can repair, heal, empower, nourish and reimagine the world.
Visitor information
Parking
Parking is limited so please car-share or use public transport wherever possible. Details of how to find us are here.
If you arrive by car, as you turn into Featherbed Lane, the gravel lane off Sergehill Lane, please drive all the way to the end of the lane, and park in the field as signposted. Please do not park in residents only bays which are along Featherbed Lane.
Please note this event will be recorded.
Please note this is a no smoking and no vaping site.
Assistance dogs only allowed on site.
Accessibility
Accessible parking for those who require it is available directly outside The Apple House. There is step-free access to the building and all areas. However, there are many potential trip hazards and uneven surfaces that may be encountered whilst visiting the gardens, along with gravel paths that aren’t suitable for walking frames with wheels.