Types of Projects Supported
Examples of successful applications
New gardens or new garden developments:
- Birmingham Botanical gardens – development of new Alpine garden area
- St Mary’s Pleasance, Haddington – purchase of plants, edging, compost and equipment hire for new garden area
- Glastonbury Abbey Medieval Garden Project – creation of medieval garden
- Chawton House Library Herb Garden – creation of herb garden as a contribution to Jane Austen’s bicentenary year 2017
- Isle of Man Cathedral Garden – espalier apple trees for new Abbey Garden
Images of new gardens or new garden development projects projects
Top left: Birmingham Botanical Gardens, development of new alpine garden area © Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Top right: The Geffrye Museum of the Home, creation of historic garden displays © Ellen Hayward-Seers
Bottom left: Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, planting of new demonstration garden © Pam Whittle
Bottom right: Recreated Physic Garden, Palace of Holyrood House, Edinburgh © David Rae
Restoration of gardens:
- Painshill Park – restoration of landscape adjacent to historic Crystal Grotto
- Walmer Castle, Kent- restoration of pleasure Grounds
- Winterbourne House and gardens – restoration of scree and alpine area
- Mount Stuart, Bute – restoration of rock garden
- St Cuthbert’s College, Durham – restoration of formal garden and parkland
Images of garden restoration projects
Left: Restoration of the Pleasure Grounds, Walmer Castle © English Heritage
Right: Remedial work to heritage trees at Castle Leod © Tom Christian
Buildings, greenhouses:
- West Dean – restoration of historic glasshouses
- Chelsea Physic Garden – restoration of Thomas Moore Cool fernery
- Hawkwood College, Stroud – restoration of walled garden glasshouse
- Cambo gardens, Fife – restoration of glasshouse in walled garden
- Westonbirt Garden- restoration of historic glasshouses
Images of the restoration of historic garden buildings or greenhouses
Top left: Restoration of the Thomas Moore Cool Conservatory, Chelsea Physic Garden © Laura Stoner New
Top right: Historic glasshouse, West Dean before restoration © West Dean Gardens
Bottom left: Historic glasshouse, West Dean, after restoration © West Dean Gardens
Bottom right: Interior of historic restored glasshouse, West Dean © West Dean Gardens
Plant study trips:
- Plant study trip to Arunchal Pradesh
- Expedition to Yunnan and Sichuan
- Plant collecting trip to Vietnam
- Westonbirt seed collecting trip to Italy
- Fieldwork to Volvograd region of Russia
Images of plant study trips
Left: Plant study and collecting trip to Vietnam © Richard Baines
Right: Mark Bodin, plant study trip to Arunchal Pradesh © Mark Bodin
Publications, exhibition materials:
- Shades of Green by John Sales
- Horniman Museum and Gardens – People and Prairie Garden interpretation
- In the Footsteps of Joseph Dalton Hooker, A Sikkim Adventure by Seamus O’Brien
- Strelitzias of the world: A historical and contemporary exploration by Himansu Baijnath & Patricia A. McCracken
- Maud Grieve book by Claire Adele de Carla
Images of publications, interpretation or exhibition materials supported by the Trust
Left: Strelitzias of the World by Himansu Baijnath and Patricia McCracken.
Right: Interpretation at People and Prairie Garden, Horniman Museum and Gardens © Horniman Museum and Gardens
Research and plant conservation using horticultural techniques:
- Bicton park – verification of conifer collection
- Cycad pollen banking project, Nongnooch Tropical Botanical Garden and other partners
- Taxonomy of the ginger genus Alpinia
- Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust – historic garden research & recording, production of garden dossiers
- Study of mortality of Prumnopitys andina in cultivation
Images of research and plant conservation projects
Left: Taxonomic study of Vietnamese plants © Richard Baines
Right: Horticultural practice to conserve threatened fruit & nut trees in Tajikistan, Fauna and Floral International © FFI