Gardeners' Minds, Memories and Music - Thursday 4 November 2021 - Suffolk Agricultural Association's 9th Biennial Gardening Conference - The ...

Suffolk Agricultural Association’s
       9th Biennial Gardening Conference

Gardeners’ Minds, Memories and Music

         Thursday 4 November 2021
    Events Centre, Trinity Park, Ipswich IP3 8UH
                and live-streamed

                Kindly sponsored by

Introduction
Join us please on Thursday 4 November for wider perspectives on the "Gardeners’ Minds, Memories and
Music".
9.30am        Registration and Coffee
10.00am       Chairman’s Introduction – Alan Gray
Alan Gray and his partner Graham Robeson have created a remarkable garden during the past 30 years,
close to the sea in northeast Norfolk: the garden benefits from a microclimate allowing many tender plants
to flourish. A much-visited garden by visitors from across the globe. As one project follows another, no
wonder Christopher Lloyd referred to them as “the unstoppable gardeners”!
10.10am       “The Well Gardened Mind” - Dr Sue Stuart-Smith
Sue Stuart-Smith, a prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist, graduated in English Literature from
Cambridge before starting to train as a doctor. She worked for the National Health Service for many years,
becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She teaches at the Tavistock Clinic in
London and is Consultant at DocHealth, a not-for-profit service helping doctors suffering stress and
burnout. She is married to Tom, the celebrated garden designer and, over thirty years together, they have
created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire. Her book - The Well Gardened Mind, was published in
2020 and became a Sunday Times bestseller and a Times Book of the Year. It has been translated into
fifteen languages.
11.15am       “Downsizing” - Mary Keen
Mary Keen is an internationally known designer, writer and lecturer. She was a member of the National
Trust Gardens Panel for twenty years. The author of six books, she writes from the heart rather than to
order. She is a regular contributor to many newspapers and gardening magazines, both here and abroad.
As a designer she worked for many years in partnership with Pip Morrison, preferring to make atmospheric
gardens which look as though they have been there for ever. Her own garden at Duntisbourne Rous, which
was regularly open to groups from all over the world, used to be her favourite project but she is equally
excited by creating a new, small garden with three allotments.
12.15pm       Two course lunch and shopping time with the trade exhibitors.
1.30pm        “Bridgewater and Beyond” - Tom Stuart-Smith
Tom Stuart-Smith is a landscape architect who works across the world; his style combines naturalism with
modernity and built forms with romantic planting and he is now regarded as one of the world's leading
thinkers on garden design. Besides creating the masterplan for the new RHS garden Bridgewater in the
north, other recent projects include extensive work at Chatsworth, a new Islamic garden in Kings Cross and
the dramatic recasting of a garden by St Paul's Cathedral with a vast water basin at its centre, reflecting Sir
Christopher Wren's famous dome. Tom has eight Chelsea Gold Medal gardens to his name, including three
"Best in Show" awards.
2.30pm        Gardens and Gardening through Words and Music
Something entirely different! Compiled by Andrew Leach, John Dyter and friends - between extracts of
keyboard music associated with gardens, played on the piano by Andrew, there will be readings from
gardening works across the generations narrated by Classic FM presenter - Catherine Bott.
Andrew Leach is a pianist, organist, accompanist, composer and conductor. He directs Woodbridge Choral
Society, including performances of Verdi's Requiem and Britten's War Requiem at Snape Maltings in 2018.
He is also chairman of Ipswich Chamber Music Society and organist at St Mary Elms, Ipswich. Andrew was a
music scholar at King's College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. His teaching career
included 20 years as Director of Music at Ipswich School. He likes to cycle to musical gigs wherever possible
and in his spare time he enjoys walking, especially up the Scottish hills.
Catherine Bott is the daughter and grand–daughter of gifted horticulturists but admits that she did not
inherit the relevant gene, although during a distinguished singing and broadcasting career she has worked
extensively with conductors John Eliot Gardiner and Edward Gardner. After a decade of combining concerts
and recordings with regular presenting for BBC Radio 3 and 4, in 2013 she was invited to join Classic FM
where she now presents a weekly live Sunday lunchtime programme.

3.30pm                            Tea, biscuits and shopping time with the trade exhibitors.
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The Suffolk Agricultural Association thanks
Alitex Greenhouses and Suffolk Gardens Trust
        for sponsoring the Conference.

      The Suffolk Agricultural Association is a charity whose aim is to
      promote food, farming and the countryside and its importance to
      Suffolk. To support our aims, we deliver a wide range of education
      programmes for young people across the County.
      The Suffolk Show is one of the UK’s oldest county shows and remains a
      traditional agricultural show at heart.
      Our home, Trinity Park, is available to hire along with an award-
      winning, purpose-built conference and events centre.

                                             Promoting, Conserving,
                                             Recording and Enjoying
                                             Suffolk’s Gardens and
                                             Designed Landscapes

                                             Contact: Paul Clarke

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                                             www. suffolkgardenstrust.org

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