| Education |
| 1984 |
Master of Arts in
Conservation Studies
Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of
York |
| • |
Commended for dissertation:
'An Approach to the Conservation of Ornamental Planting in
English Gardens 1730-1830' |
| 1979 |
Master of Philosophy
in Landscape Architecture
University of Edinburgh, Frank Clark Prize. |
| 1977 |
Two Years' Study
in Landscape Architecture
Thames Polytechnic, London |
| 1974 |
Bachelor of Arts
(Hons) in Modern History
(specialized in architectural history)
St. John's College, Oxford |
Present Position & Recent
Activities |
| 2003- |
Associate Director,
Painshill Park Trust |
| 2001- |
Senior Lecturer in
Landscape History, Harvard University Graduate School of Design |
| 1997-2000 |
Adjunct Professor,
University of Toronto |
| 1996 |
Guest professor in
landscape history at GSD, Harvard University, fall semester |
| 1994-1995 |
Full Fellow in Studies
in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington,
D.C. |
| 1994- |
Historic Landscape
Consultant |
| • |
International heritage consultant. Recent projects include: Vimy Memorial Park, Arras, France; 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa (Prime Minister's Residence); Grange Park, Toronto and Parkwood, Oshawa, Ontario; Schlosshof and Belvedere, Vienna, Austria; Fürst Pückler-Muskau Park, Germany; Croome Court, Hestercombe and Gibside, England. Historic planting consultant to Painshill Park Trust from 1984 to present. |
| • |
Co-Curator of an exhibition on Mrs. Delany for Yale Center for British Art (from 2006) |
| • |
Author of The
Flowering of Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds 1720-1800
-- published by the University of Pennsylvania Press,
January 1999 |
| • |
Reviews Editor for Studies
in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, formerly
Journal of Garden History (1989-2003). |
Previous Activities |
| 1988-1994 |
Historic Landscape
Consultant |
| • |
From 1993 to 1994: commissioned
to write a set of guidelines for English Heritage on issues
of planting conservation. The second phase of this contract
included studies of historic planting at Chiswick House, the
Brighton Pavilion and St. James's Park, London. |
| • |
1993: work on a report on historic
planting at Ham House for the National Trust; collaboration
in a study on cemetery conservation in Ontario. |
| • |
From 1988 to 1993: conservation
studies of Rideau Hall, Ottawa; Bruck an der Leitha, near
Vienna, and Schloß Eggenberg, Graz; 100 Boulevard Gamelin,
Ottawa; Cadland, Hampshire; Hatfield Priory Essex, and Castle
Bromwich Hall. |
| • |
Autumn 1990: garden history instructor
to the University of Guelph landscape programme 'semester
abroad' in the UK. |
| 1988-1989 |
Full Fellow and Summer
Fellow in Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, DC. |
| • |
Research on English flower gardens,
1700-1830, to prepare for publications in Garden History,
Journal of Garden History and DO Colloquium volume XIII. |
| 1986-1988 |
Historical Research
Fellow, Chelsea Physic Garden, London |
| • |
Responsible for conducting research
into the history of the garden and its plants to produce a
series of publications on W. Curtis, J. Banks and T. Moore. |
| 1984-1986 |
Research Fellow,
Centre for the Conservation of Historic Parks and Gardens,
IoAAS, University of York |
| • |
Responsible for research, lecturing
and administration. Worked on compiling HBMC (English Heritage)
register of historic sites in England. Historic planting consultant
to Painshill, Chiswick House, Endsleigh House. |
| 1981-1983 |
Landscape Architect
for Private Practice, Klaus Ihlenfeld, Heidelberg,
West Germany |
| • |
Responsible for design work for
private gardens and public landscapes including planting plans
and perspectives. |
| 1979-1981 |
Free-lance Landscape
Consultant, Donald Insall & Associates, Conservation
Architects |
| • |
Work included a conservation
study of Witley Court, Herfordshire. Consultant to Sir Gordon
Russell in the completion of his celebrated garden Kingcombe,
Gloucestershire. |
| 1976-1977 |
Landscape Trainee,
Derek Lovejoy & Partners, Crawley, Sussex |
| 1974-1975 |
Assistant Gardener,
St. James's Park, London, and Killesberg Park, Stuttgart |
Awards, Fellowships &
Professional Honors |
| |
Jury Member of Point
Pleasant Park International Design Competition, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 2005 |
| |
CSLA awards for Conservation
Study of Parkwood, Oshawa, 1999 |
|
Europa Nostra medal
for 'exemplary' restoration of Painshill Park, 1998 |
|
Full Fellowship at
Dumbarton Oaks 1994-1995 |
|
Stanley Smith Horticultural
Trust Scholarship 1995 |
|
Full Fellowship at
Dumbarton Oaks 1988-1989 |
|
Summer Fellowship
at Dumbarton Oaks 1989 |
|
Stanley Smith Horticultural
Trust Scholarship 1985 |
|
European Community
Scholarship for Conservation Studies 1983-1984 |
|
Frank Clark Prize
for dissertation on garden conservation, Edinburgh, 1979 |
|
Social Science Research
Council Scholarship 1977-1979 |
|
Exhibition Scholarship
to St. John's College, Oxford, 1971-1974 |
Publications |
| Books |
| 1999 |
The
Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds,
1720-1800, University
of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1992 |
The
Formal Garden: Traditions of Art and Nature, Thames
and Hudson. Translated into French, German, Dutch and Italian |
Essays and Articles |
|
Pending |
|
Commissioned to write a chapter on 'Planting in Gardens in the Age of
Empire: 1800-1920', ed. Sonja Dümpelmann (vol. in A Cultural History of Gardens, eds. John Dixon Hunt & Michael Leslie), due out in 2009. |
|
'This Other Eden: The American Connection in Georgian Pleasure Grounds, from Shrubbery and Menagerie to Aviary and Flower Garden,' in The Culture of
Nature: Art & Science in Philadelphia 1740-1840, ed. Amy R. W. Meyers (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009) |
|
Published |
| 2008 |
'The Congenial Climate of Coffee-House Horticulture: The Historia plantarum rariorum and the Catalogus plantarum', in The Art of Natural
History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850, eds. Therese O'Malley and Amy R. W. Meyers (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2008), pp. 226-259 (including appendix by Margaret Riley). |
| 2007 |
'Greenhouses & Great Storm: John Evelyn on the Workings of God and Man in the Garden', in A Celebration of John Evelyn, Proceedings of a Conference to Mark the Tercentenary of his Death, ed. Mavis Batey (Surrey: Surrey Gardens Trust, 2007), pp. 98-119. |
| 2006 |
'"Perpetual Spring" or Tempestuous Fall: The Greenhouse and the Great Storm of 1703 in the life of John Evelyn and his Contemporaries', Garden History, vol.34, no.2 (Winter 2006), pp. 153-173. |
| 2005 |
'The Impacts of Climate Change
on Historic Landscapes', in The Significance
of Setting: Conserving Monuments and Sites in Changing
Canadian Cultural Landscapes (Toronto: ICOMOS Canada—CD
available at canada.icomos.org.) |
| 2003 |
'Sayes Court Revisited', in
John Evelyn and his Milieu, eds. Frances Harris and
Michael Hunter, London: British Library, pp. 115-144. |
|
'Reconstructing the Culture
of Horticulture on Both Sides of the Atlantic', in The
Garden: Myth, Meaning and Metaphor, eds. Brian J. Day,
Windsor: Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor,
pp. 71-86. |
| 2002 |
'Landscape Conservation at Chiefswood
National Historic Site' in Borderlands: The Shared Canadian
and U.S. Experience of Landscape, proceedings of The
Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, Waterloo, Ontario,
Heritage Resource Center, University of Waterloo, pp. 136-146. |
|
'The Culture of Horticulture:
Class, Consumption, and Gender in the English Landscape Garden',
in Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden
Art, 1550-1850, ed. Michel Conan, Washington, DC: Dumbarton
Oaks Research Library and Collection, pp. 221-254. |
| 2001 |
Entries on 'Shrubbery', 'Nuneham
Courtenay', 'Parterre/Plate Bande' and 'American Garden' for
the Chicago Botanic Garden Encyclopedia of Gardens: History
and Design, Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. |
| 2000 |
'Enlarging the Frame': Der Schutz
von historischen Gärten ausangloamerikanischer Sicht'
in Historische Gärten - Schutz und Pflege als Rechtsfrage,
ed. Gerte Reichelt, Vienna: Band 5 der Schriftenreihe des
Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes für Europarecht, pp. 49-58. |
|
'From Bouquets to Baskets',
The Magazine Antiques (June), pp.932-39 |
|
'Exotics and Botanical Illustration'
in Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque
England 1690-1730, eds. Christopher Ridgway and Robert
Williams, Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., pp.93-113. |
| 1999 |
'Climate, Weather and Planting
Design in English Formal Gardens of the Early 185h Century'
in Die Gartenkunst des Barock, ICOMOS Journals of the
German National Committee, XXVIII, pp.14-19. |
| 1998 |
'From Callicarpa to Catalpa:
The Impact of Mark Catesby's Plant Introductions on English
Gardens of the 18th Century', in Empire's Nature: Mark
Catesby's New World Visions, eds. Amy R. W. Meyers and
Margaret Beck Pritchard, Chapel Hill and London: University
of North Carolina Press, pp.184-227. |
|
'Parterre, Grove, and Flower
Garden: European Horticulture and Planting in John Evelyn's
Time' in John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European
Gardening, eds. Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn,
Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, pp.171-219. |
|
'Developments in Ornamental
Planting Design, 1500-1800, and their Interpretation in Garden
Conservation', in Naturschutz and Denkmalpflege, ed.
Ingo Kowarik, Erika Schmidt and Brigitt Sigel, vdf Hochschulverlag
AG, Zürich, pp.183-191. |
| 1997 |
'The Garden Plan for 13 Upper
Gower Street, London: A Conjectural Review of the Planting,
Upkeep and Long-Term Maintenance of a Late Eighteenth-Century
Town Garden'. Garden History (Winter), pp.189-211. |
| |
'Rekonstruktion, Denkmalpflege
and Naturschutz in Painshill Park: Versöhnung zwischen
Kunst und Natur', Die Gartenkunst, 9. Jahrgang Heft
2, pp.274-283. |
| |
'Theatres of Flowers: the Art
and science of Eighteenth-Century Floral Displays', in the
Clusius Lectures (October), eds. Gerta van Uffelen
& Erik de Jong, Clusius Foundation, Leiden, pp.5-19. |
| |
'"Original Fabric" or "Original
Design Intent"? The Unresolved Dilemma in Planting Conservation',
Restoration of Baroque Gardens, The UNESCO Conferences
on Neercanne, Dutch Yearbook of the History of Garden
and Landscape Architecture, Architectura & Natura, pp.60-77. |
| 1996 |
'James Maddock's "Blooming Stage"
and the Meticulous Art of the "Auricula Theatre" as a Microcosm
of Eighteenth-Century Planting', Garden History special
issue, vol.24, no.1 (Summer), pp.70-81. |
| |
'Corbeille, Parterre and
Treillage: the case of Humphry Repton's penchant for
the French style of planting', Journal of Garden History,
vol.16/3, pp.153-169. |
| 1994 |
'"Conjectural Replanting": Leitlinien
zur Wiederbeplanzung historischer Gärten aufgrund von
Analogieschlüssen', Die Gartenkunst, 6. Jahrgang
Heft 2, pp.320-343. |
| |
'Ein Gartenplan für Upper
Gower St. 13, London; Mutmassungen über Anlage, Pflege
und Entwicklung eines Bügergartens im ausgehenden 18.
Jahrhundert', in Garten Kunst Geschichte: Festschrift für
Dieter Hennebo, ed. Erika Schmidt, Wilfried Hansmann and
Jörg Gamer, pp.82-94 (with appendix by John Harvey). |
| 1993 |
'A Cloth of Tissue of Divers
Colours: The English Flower Border, 1660-1735', Garden
History, vol.21, no.2 (Winter), pp. 158-205 (with appendix
by John Harvey). |
| 1992 |
'Restoration of Planting in
Eighteenth-Century Landscape Gardens', Restoration '92,
UKIC, (October). |
| |
'Ornamental Planting and Horticulture
in English Pleasure Grounds, 1700-1830' in Garden History:
Issues, Approaches, Methods, ed. John Dixon Hunt. Dumbarton
Oaks Colloquium series, vol. XIII, pp.243-277. |
| 1991 |
'Assessment of the Management
Plan for the Landscape Garden Prugg: Bruck an der Leitha',
Die Gartenkunst, 3. Jahrgang Heft 2, pp.201-205. |
| |
'Approaches to planting in the
late eighteenth century: some imperfect ideas on the origins
of the American garden', Journal of Garden History, vol.11,
no.3, (July-September), pp.154-172. |
| 1990 |
'"Our equally favorite Hobby
Horse": the flower gardens of Lady Elizabeth Lee at Hartwell
and the 2nd Earl Harcourt at Nuneham Courtenay'; appendix
by J.H. Harvey. Published in Garden History, vol.18,
no.2, (Autumn), pp. 103-154. |
| 1988 |
Paper delivered to the British
Records Association in 1987: 'The Interpretation of Archival
Sources in Garden Restoration', Archives, vol. XVIII,
no.80 (October). |
| |
Papers on aspects of the history
of Chelsea Physic Garden: |
| |
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Thomas Moore: Curator at
Chelsea Physic Garden 1848-1887, London 1988. |
| |
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Sir Joseph Banks, Botanist, Horticulturist
and Plant Collector: Associations with Chelsea Physic Garden,
London 1988. |
| |
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William Hudson: Demonstrator of Plants
at Chelsea Physic Garden 1765-1771, London 1988. |
| |
|
William Curtis: Demonstrator of Plants
at Chelsea Physic Garden 1772-1777, London 1987. |
| 1986 |
Peter Goodchild and Mark Laird
'Centre for the Conservation of Historic Parks and Gardens',
A future for our past, no.29 (1986). |
Reviews
for Journal of Garden History now Studies in the
History of Gardens & Design Landscapes |
| |
German garden books: |
| 2006 |
Bibliographie
der Deutschen Gartenbücher, 1471-1750, by Clemens
Alexander Wimmer and Iris Lauterbach. |
| |
Bäume und Sträucher
in historischen Gärten: Gehölzverwendung in Geschichte
und Denkmalpflege, by Clemens Alexander Wimmer. |
| |
Frühe Landschaftsgärten
in Russland und Deutschland : Johann Busch als Mentor eines
neuen Stils, by Marcus Köhler. |
| |
Beskrifning öfwer idéen
och general-plan tell en Ängelsk lustpark, by F.
M. Piper |
| 2003 |
The London Town Garden,
1700-1840, by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan |
| 2002 |
Von Muskau bis Konstantinopel:
Eduard Petzold ein europäischer, Gartenkünstler,
1815-1891, by Michael Rohde, vol. 22, no. 2, (April-June
2002) |
| |
Review Essay: An Oak Spring
Flora: Flower Illustration from the Fifteenth Century to the
Present Time by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi |
| |
Hortus Eystettensis: The
Bishop's Garden and Besler's Magnificent Book by Nicolas
Barker |
| |
The Art of Botanical Illustration,
2nd ed.. by Wifrid Blunt and William T. Stearn |
| |
The King's Privy Garden at
Hampton Court Palace 1689-1995, ed. Simon Thurley |
| 2000 |
Dictionary of British &
Irish Botanists and Horticulturists: Including Plant Collectors,
Flower Painters and Garden Designers, revised ed. by Ray
Desmond and Christine Ellwood. vol.20, no.3 (July-September
2000). |
| 1994 |
Historiche Gärten in
Österreich: vergessene Gesamtkunstwerke ed. Géza
Hajós. vol.14, no.3 (July-September 1994). |
|
Plants in Garden History
by Penelope Hobhouse. vol.14, no.2 (April-June 1994). |
|
Der Französische Garten
am Ende des Ancien Régime by Iris Lauterbach |
| 1992 |
Peter Joseph Lenné:
Garten/Parke/Landschaften by Harri Günther; and Die
Entdeckung der Landschaft: Englische Gärten des 18. Jahrhunderts
by Valentin Hammerschmidt and Joachim Wilke. vol.12, no.4
(October-December 1992). |
|
An Oak Spring Sylva and
An Oak Spring Pomona by Sandra Raphael. vol.12 |
| 1990 |
Das Palmenhaus auf der Pfaueninsel:
Geschichte seiner baulichen und gärtnerischen Gestaltung
by Michael Seiler; and Romantische Gärten der
Aufklärung in und um Wein by Géza Hajós.
vol.10, no.2 (April-June 1990). |
| 1986 |
Gartendenmalpflege edited
by Dieter Hennebo. vol.6, no.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1986). |
| 1983 |
Die Ruine im Landschaftsgarten
by Günter Hartmann. vol.3, no.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1983). |
Reviews for Garden
History |
| 2002 |
"Forget not mee &
my garden --”: selected letters, 1725-1768 of Peter
Collinson , F.R.S. by Alan W. Armstrong, vol.30, no.1
(Spring 2002) |
Conferences and Lectures |
| |
Recent and Forthcoming Engagements
as Speaker |
| 2007 |
'Made to Walk On: The English
Lawn as Fashion', Lecture Series 'Enlightenment', Bata
Shoe Museum, Toronto, 15 April, 2007. |
| 2006 |
'"Nursing Pretty Monsters":
The Duchess of Beaufort and Art & Science in Baroque Gardening',
Department of Landscape Architecture Lecture, Piper
Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 24
October 2006. |
| |
'Flowers and the Georgian Pleasure
Ground', Keynote Lecture at Hartwell and Nuneham Conference,
UK, 19 June 2006 |
| |
'Bedding Out in Paris and London:
William Robinson as Catalyst of Horticultural Change',
Lecture at isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, March 2006. |
| |
'Library and Laboratory: Testing
Paper Reconstruction as a Living Garden', American Historical
Association, Philadelphia, 5 January, 2006. |
| 2005 |
'The Impact of Climate Change
on Historic Landscapes', ICOMOS Canada Conference, Toronto,
September 2005 |
| |
'Nursing Pretty Monsters: The
1st Duchess of Beaufort and the Vychious Florilegium (1703-05)',
Lecture to Conference of the Garden History Society, Lincoln,
16 July |
| |
Two lectures at Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew and Painshill Park respectively for 'Ways of
Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge'
Conference (Wellcome Trust), London, 11-15 July 2005. |
| |
Lecture Day at the Architectural
Association, London, 7 July |
| |
'Painshill: The Flowering of
the Landscape Garden', Lecture in the New York Botanical Garden,
Bard Graduate Center Series, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 8 March |
| 2004 |
Lecture to Symposium '"Curious
in Our Way": The Culture of Nature in Philadelphia, 1740-1840';
Philadelphia, 18-21 November 2004. |
| |
"Capability Brown and Co.
- The English Planting Style and European Gardening', Anglomania
series at World Monuments Fund in Britain, London, 9 June
2004. |
| |
Overview for symposium 'Garden
Archaeology: History and Science in the Landscape', The Landscape
Institute of the Arnold Arboretum, 5 March, 2004. |
| 2003 |
'Replanting Painshill Park and
the Next Twenty Years', Bard Graduate Center, 29 October,
2003. |
| 2002 |
'American Plants in the English
Landscape Garden'. Lecture at 'North American Plants - Their
Cultural History' -- Historic Plants Symposium, Charlottesville,
Virginia, 16-17 August 2002. |
| |
'Jacobus van Huysum's Paintings
for the Catalogus Plantarum (1730) and Its Relationship
to John Martyn's Historia plantarum rariorum (1728-1737).
Paper delivered to 'The Art and History of Botanical Painting
and Natural History Treatises' symposium, National Gallery
of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington,
DC, 3-4 May 2002. |
| |
Paper to 'Plants and the Historic
Landscape', Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies of the
Arnold Arbotretum/Radcliffe Seminars, 8 March 2002. |
| |
Paper to 'The Fair Majestic
Paradise at Stowe: The Restoration of an Eighteenth-Century
Garden', The Huntington, 25-26 January 2002. |
| 2001 |
Faculty Colloquium and Lecture
for Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, as part
of the 2001-2002 Distinguished Speakers Series The Garden:
Myth, Meaning and Metaphor. 9 November 2001. |
| |
John Evelyn Conference at the
British Library, London, 17-18 September 2001. Lectures at
Annual General Meeting of Historic Gardens Trusts (9 September
2001); Chelsea Physic Garden (11 September 2001); and at Royal
Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh (20 September 2001). |
| |
Paper to Barockblumen-Seminar,
Schönbrunn, Vienna, 7 September 2001 |
| |
Lecture in series 'Envisioning
a Garden' dedicated to the recovery of the Longfellow Historic
Landscape, Radcliffe Seminars, Cambridge, MA. 20 March 2001. |
| |
Lectures in Bordeaux, Paris
and Lyon for the Agrégation syllabus 'Gardens and Landscape
in 18th-Century England', 19-23 January 2001 |
| 2000 |
Das Gartendenkmal als Schauplatz
des Wandels: Kurzlebige Schmuckpflanzungen einst und heute.
Conference at the Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau,
13-15 July 2000. |
| |
National Trust Conference on
Eighteenth-Century Planting, Claremont and Painshill, 12 July
2000 |
| |
A Seminar by Mark Laird on Historical
Planting Design, The Architectural Association School of Architecture,
29 June 2000 |
| |
First Robert Penson Garden Lecture,
St. John's College, Oxford, 27 June 2000 |
| |
'Historische Gärten Schutz
und Pflege als Rechtsfrage': Conference in Vienna 28 April
2000 |
| |
54th Colonial Williamsburg Garden
Symposium: 2-5 April 2000 |
| |
Lecture at Christies, New York,
24-25 January 2000 |
| 1999 |
Lecture at Dumbarton Oaks, December
1999 |
| |
Vanbrugh Conference, York, July
1999 |
| |
Alliance Conference 'Borderlands',
Niagara-on-the-Lake, 2-4 June 1999 |
| |
Bartram 300 Symposium, Philadelphia,
May 20-21, 1999 |
| 1998 |
Tour of English Gardens with
Australian Garden History Society, June 1998 |
| |
Papers Presented and Seminars
Given |
| 1998 |
'From Callicarpa to Catalpa:
The Impact of Mark Catesby's Plant Introductions on English
Gardens of the Eighteenth Century' for the 'Mark Catesby'
symposium, Williamsburg, 7 & 8 February 1998. |
| 1997 |
'Theatres of Flowers: the art
and science of eighteenth-century floral display', The Clusius
Foundation, Leiden, 9 October 1997. |
| |
'Climate, Weather and Planting
Design in English Formal Gardens of the Early Eighteenth Century'
for the ICOMOS international conference 'Die Gartenkunst des
Barock', Bamberg, September 24 to 27, 1997. |
| |
Workshop on Landscape Conservation
in Ontario, Stonyground Institute for Garden and Landscape
Studies, Walkerton, Ontario, June 28 1997 |
| |
'Painshill Park and the Flowering
of the Landscape Garden', lecture at the annual dinner of
the Radcliffe Student Chapter of the Boston Society of Landscape
Architects, 30 April 1997. |
| |
'Elysium in England: 18th-Century
Landscape Gardens' for the Royal Oak Foundation at Rose-Tree
Cottage, Pasadena, California, 16 April 1997. |
| |
'Irregular Regularities: Formal
Plantings in the English Landscape Garden', in the 'Formalism'
Conference, Scripps College & Huntington, 10-12 April
1997. |
| 1996 |
'North American Thickets in
English Shires: The Impact of John Bartram's Plants on English
Gardens': Smith College, 21 November 1996. |
| |
'Painshill Park': Royal Oak
Foundation, NYC, 20 November 1996. |
| |
Workshop on 'The Genius of the
Place', Stonyground Institute for Garden and Landscape Studies,
Walkerton, Ontario, July 7 1996. |
| |
'Garden Conservation and Nature
Conservation', Project La Foce Conference II, section 'Cultural
Degradation', Tuscany, Italy, 13-15 June 1996. |
| |
Seminars at Architectural Association,
London, and Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York,
June 1996. |
| |
'Die Wiederbepflanzung Painshill
Parks: Versöhnung Zwischen Kunst und Natur im Englischen
Landschaftsgarten', Eisenstadt, Austria, 30 May to 1 June,
1996. |
| |
'Gardens of the 1790s', Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 25 April 1996. |
| |
Lecture and Seminar Series:
Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania,
The John Bartram Association, Harvard University, Graduate
School of Design, CASVA, Washington, DC, University of Virginia,
School of Architecture, and Colonial Williamsburg, March -
April 1996. |
| 1995 |
UNESCO conference on Neercaane
Castle, Maastricht, 27-29 September 1995. 'Restoration projects
of 17th- and 18th-century gardens in western Europe'. |
| |
Roundtable, Dumbarton Oaks,
March 1995. 'Corbeille, Parterre and Treillage: Humphry Repton's
Penchant for the French style of Planting'. |
| 1993 |
'The Conjectural and the Categorical
in the Treatment of Historic Planting', The National Association
for Olmsted Parks, The National Trust for Historic Preservation
and The National Park Service symposium A Reality Check for
Our Nation's Parks, St. Louis, Missouri, 28 September 1993. |
| |
Thomas Jefferson 250 anniversary
lecture, Monticello, Virginia. 23 August, 1993. 'English influences
on Jefferson's planting'. |
| |
International Symposium on the
Conservation of Urban Squares and Parks: 12-15 May, 1993,
Montreal. 'The private and public grounds of Rideau Hall'. |
| |
Dumbarton Oaks Symposium: John
Evelyn's 'Elysium Britannicum' and European Gardening, 14-15
May, 1993. |
| 1992 |
English Heritage Seminar: Planting
of Gardens 1660-1705, 26 October 1992. 'English flower borders:
1660-1735'. |
| |
Restoration 92: Conservation,
training, materials and techniques: latest development, 20-22
October 1992, Amsterdam 'Restoration of Planting in Eighteenth-Century
Landscape Gardens'. |
| |
Guest lecture at Université
de Montréal, 8 April 1992 'Painshill and the Conservation
of Historic Planting'. |
| 1990 |
APT International Conference,
3-9 Sept. 1990, Montreal, 'Approaches to the Conservation
of Historic Planting'. |
| |
Welsh Gardens Under Threat,
2-4 April, 1990, Lampeter, Wales. |
| 1989 |
'Ornamental Planting and Horticulture
in English Gardens of the 18th Century', Harvard Graduate
School of Design, 26 July 1989. |
| |
Symposium on Landscape and Garden
History: Issues Approaches Methods, 19-21 May 1989, Dumbarton
Oaks. |
| |
'English Gardens, 1730-1830:
Ornamental Planting and the American Connection', keynote
lecture to Historic Gardens Seminar, Charleston SC, 9-11 March
1989. |
| 1987 |
ICOMOS International Gardens
Conference: The English Landscape Park--Concept and Conservation,
September 1987, Oxford. |
| 1986 |
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