Gardens That Can Save The World with Lottie Delamain, Sue Stuart-Smith and Kali Hamerton Stove

Event Schedule
5.30pm-6.30pm - Explore the Plant Library - with a pop-up Plant Sale from Sunnyside Rural Trust's Orchard Nursery
6pm Drinks in the Plant Library
6.30pm-8pm Talk: Gardens That Can Save The World with Lottie Delamain, Sue Stuart-Smith and Kali Hamerton-Stove followed by a book signing
8pm Close

'Faced with planetary crisis, it's easy to feel impotent and despairing. The answer, as gardeners around the globe are discovering, is to create a little patch of hope in your own backyard. Together, we can change the world. Will you join us?’ Isabella Tree
Join us in The Apple House for this event with three inspirational and influential women to explore and celebrate and explore the ways in which green spaces can be the solution to some of our most pressing problems, from loneliness to climate change, with:

Lottie Delamain Garden Designer and Author of Gardens That Can Save The World
Dr Sue Stuart-Smith Psychiatrist, Co-Founder of The Serge Hill Project for Gardening Creativity and Health CIC, Author of The Well Gardened Mind
Kali Hamerton-Stove Co-Founder and Project Director of The Glasshouse Social Enterprise

This one-off event marks the publication of Lottie Delamain’s acclaimed book Gardens That Can Save The World and is hosted to help raise funds for one of the featured projects, The Serge Hill Project. Tickets include the talk, a book signing, a welcome drink and the chance to explore Tom Stuart-Smith’s The Plant Library of over 2000 perennials and bulbs.

Gardens and green spaces are at the vanguard of positive change. They are modern-day crucibles for ideas and innovation that are providing solutions to some of our most persistent problems, whether loneliness or illness, flooding or drought. Around the world, green-fingered thinkers and pioneering plants-people are harnessing the power of the wild to quietly find small-scale strategies to reverse these ills.

It’s no longer just about aesthetics, but about what the great outdoors can do – save water, transform mental health, bridge social divides, educate vulnerable children, reimagine polluting industries and provide much reason for optimism in a rapidly changing world. Celebrating both the garden and gardener as integral players in a healthier future this book presents a series of strategies that will help the reader reevaluate the potential that lies in green spaces near them by looking at how they have been applied in gardens around the world.

Join us for an evening of discussion as leading influential figures in landscape architecture and social therapeutic horticulture explore and celebrate how gardens can repair, heal, empower, nourish and reimagine the world.