Kate Stuart-Smith and Non Morris: On the Garden at Serge Hill House

Join Kate Stuart-Smith and Non Morris at the Garden Museum for an evening of conversation exploring Kate's passionate and experimental pursuit of making the garden at Serge Hill, Hertfordshire, her own.
The garden at Serge Hill has been in the Stuart-Smith family for nearly a hundred years. When Kate Stuart-Smith took it over in 2008 she was faced with a series of challenges. How to make a place your own when it is a much-loved family garden – albeit with the sensibility of an older generation? How to edit out plants you have always disliked and yet be sure to hang on to plants that you may regret losing? Do you dare to remove a mature tree or a carefully nurtured hedge? What will happen if you simply stop the meticulous spraying that has kept the paths crisp and clear for generations?
Sister of landscape designer, Tom Stuart-Smith, whose renowned Barn Garden is across the way, Kate Stuart-Smith will be discussing how she took on the family plot thoughtfully – but with a sense of adventure – and created a garden whose surging, fairy tale profusion does indeed make the visitor gasp.

Time: 19:00 BST

https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-non-morris-kate-stuart-smith/