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FOLAR and the Gardens Trust present a series of weekly online talks reviewing the 21 recently registered post war landscapes and gardens and their designers. The purpose of the series is to focus attention on the ideas, ingenuity and quality of each of these 20c designs.
Read MoreLandscape architect John Medhurst contacted FOLAR to see if we thought the MERL would be interested in a little sketch he had made - he said it was on the back of an envelope. We said yes! of course, and he forwarded a couple of sketches and some notes he made while listening to a talk. The event was at the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew.
Read MoreWe asked Patricia Malcher to tell us how the Huddart drawings came to The MERL, this is what she says: Lancelot Arthur Huddart, or rather, his wonderful drawings, came into my life in the late 1980s. I was in the throes of a mid-life crisis in both my work and private life which caused me to decide upon a career change.
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