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May
30
Sat
Visit to Beth Chatto’s Garden @ Beth Chatto's House near Colchester
May 30 @ 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

Friends of Waterlow Park are organising a coach trip on Saturday 30 May to this famous garden and plant nursery near Colchester in Essex. Beth Chatto, now in her 90s, is one of the country’s foremost plantswomen. Highlights are the gravel garden, the fabulous display of herbaceous plants and shrubs, and water and woodland gardens. Come along to get ideas for your garden or just to enjoy seeing great garden design. Coach will depart Highgate at 9.00 and return by 17.30.

May
29
Mon
aspidistra drawing room orchestra @ Lauderdale House
May 29 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

A concert of popular music from the beginning of the last century. Performed in style by this authentic ensemble consisting of string quartet, piano flute and oboe, praised for their lively interpretation of the genre.

The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra is an orchestra that specialises in the type of light classical music that is usually referred to as “Palm Court Music” or “Salon Music”. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was an enormous appetite for light music. The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra started, from very small beginnings: a group of friends and a folder of music. However, since the mid 1990s, they have steadily expanded their repertoire, continually hunting for new material.

Aspidistra made their Radio debut when the BBC used some tracks from the Best of Palm Court as background music for the radio play Tears of War on Remembrance Day 2002. Since then their recordings have been heard regularly on Brian Kay’s light programme and as background music for other radio plays. Their music was also used for The Producer Prince, a TV documentary based on interviews with Prince Alessandro Tasca di Cuto, the son of an illustrious Sicilian family. Sadly his father squandered the family fortunes and died penniless in 1927.

May
5
Sat
Harington Annual Spring Plant Sale @ Harington Scheme
May 5 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Join us for Harington Annual Spring Plant Sale.

As well as buying all your summer bedding and window box plants, hanging baskets, herbs, chutneys and jams, there will be refreshments served by the Friends of the Harington Scheme in our walled garden.  Fingers crossed for sunshine!

  • Bedding Plants
  • Hanging Baskets
  • Perennials
  • Herbs
  • Refreshments
  • Homemade Produce