Lecture: A Journey to No Man’s Land- the Road to Gold at Chelsea

by Charlotte Rowe

Date: Friday 15 March Time: 2.00pm
Venue: Minterne House Minterne Magna, DT2 7AU
Cost: £15 to include tea , coffee, cake after the talk. Payment at door possible
Facilities: Ample parking . WC. Disabled access. No dogs.
About: Award-winning garden designer Charlotte Rowe originally studied art history beforespending 15 years in public relations and marketing in London and Sydney including as Director of Communications at the newly formed Greater London Authority in 2001. After re-training as a landscape designer, she set up her design studio in London in 2004. Since then, she has worked on more than 300 urban and rural design projects for clients. Her work has featured in a number of TV gardening and design programmes, in newspapers and magazines, as well as in a number of specialist books. In 2014 she designed the Gold medal-winning show garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower with ABF the Soldiers’ Charity. Called No Man’s Land, the garden marked the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. The highs and lows along the route to gold are many!

The talk with describe the whole process of development of the garden – the original concept idea and where it came from, the creative process and the ups and downs of doing a garden along with some of her current projects.