Meeting Via ZOOM 7.30pm

Caroline Holmes is a garden historian of ancient, modern and contemporary people, places and plants. Academic but not dry through images and words she delves into the myriad ways humans have shaped landscapes. She lectures to small groups for specialist travel firms, visiting inspiring European sites as well as on Mediterranean, Baltic, Transatlantic and Pacific Ocean cruises. Viking TV filmed her in her own garden in September 2022.

Caroline lectures internationally and is a Course Director for the University of Cambridge’s ICE, in July 2023 in celebration of the coronation of King Charles III, her international summer programme will be ‘Fit for a King - royal geographical and architectural statements' in contrast her study weekend in November will be 'Plant hunters - the quest for the world's edible and exotic plants'. The latter being a popular cruise subject as well. She is a speaker for The Arts Society, formerly NADFAS, The Gardens Trust, the RHS and the National Trust amongst many organisations.

Caroline is author of 12 books, several of which were researched in France and Australia. She is recipient of two Herb Society of America awards: 2011 Gertrude B. Foster Award for Excellence in Herbal Literature and 2017 Elizabeth Crisp Rea Award. Finalist in the Garden Media Guild’s 2014 Reference Book of the Year Award for ‘The RHS Herbs for Gourmet Gardeners’.

Caroline is a consultant designer currently devising a series of landscapes for a development of 5,000 houses and associated schools in Norfolk. Other projects include Humanist Renaissance inspired gardens to enclose Notre Dame de Calais, officially opened in September 2016, shortlisted for 'Jardin Remarquable' status. A video of her designs: 'Engraved on my Heart: a new garden for Calais' can be viewed by following the link www.mfreeth.com/movies/13.html. She also devised the planting for the Poisons Garden in The Alnwick Garden.

This is defintely going to be a very interesting ZOOM talk.