Forthcoming Events
Sunday 24 May - Monserrate
Holistic Gardening
15.00 - Visit recently restored Roseiral where more than 100 roses have been planted this year.
15.30 - Chamber Concert will take place in the ruins of the ancient Chapel of Monserrate.
16.30 - Conference on Holistic Gardening by Gustavo Wielandt Arrau at the Monserrate Auditorium. The restored Library at the Palace will be open during the event. Tea will be served at the end of the programme. Mr. Wielandt will speak in English and Portuguese.
Our speaker was born in Chile in 1960 and is an Agronomic Engineer and a postgraduate in Holistic Gardening from Fort Collins, USA. He has wide experience in holistic projects in Colorado and Virginia, USA and more recently in the Cascais/Sintra area where he now lives.
Please contact Ben Weijers by email or phone 219 291 841 to confirm your interest in this event and let him know if you will be attending as soon as possible.
(We apologise for the late notice of this event but the arrangements at Monserrate have only just been confirmed.)
Past Events
September 2008 - Roses for the Mediterranean Climate
Illustrated talk by Michael Marriott of David Austin Roses at Convento Sao Jose, Lagoa, Algarve.
Michael Marriott is one of Britain’s leading rose growers. He has been surrounded by roses for the past 25 years. In his day job as technical manager and curator of the National Plant Collection at David Austin Roses he lives and breathes the global brand synonymous with English roses, and his Shropshire garden contains an ever-changing range of dozens of varieties at any one time. His plot is no formal showpiece, however. It's a living tapestry, alive with birds and insects: a real-life example of how gardening with nature can work both aesthetically and productively.
“There are two groups of roses in my garden,” he says. “Some that I know are very reliable and very beautiful, such as ‘Francis E. Lester’, ‘Golden Celebration’, ‘Queen of Denmark’ and ‘The Mayflower’, while others that I don’t know I have acquired from various places and I'm interested to see how they grow. My garden is almost a testing ground. If they do very well then I suggest that they go into the catalogue, if not I dig them out. There are 60 or 70 varieties in the garden; I count them in my head if I can't sleep.” But it's not just the roses that inspire Michael: “I like anything with a bit of chlorophyll in it,” he says.
February 2008 - Clematis Day
Joint event with the Bons Jardins Garden Group
This day was based in Moncarapacho in the eastern Algarve. There was an illustrated talk in the morning given by Mike Brown, past Chairman of the British Clematis Society, followed by a light lunch and a workshop session in the afternoon. The emphasis was on clematis suitable for the Algarve. The workshop session demonstrated topics such as propagation (by seed and cuttings), cultivation and container growing of clematis. |
