Winter Lecture 2024: Rachel de Thame

A wholistic approach to gardening for wellbeing and wildlife

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 19:00-20:30 | £20, registration required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW

Rachel is a broadcaster, writer and passionate gardener. Trained at The English Gardening School, she has been a regular presenter on Gardeners’ World since 1999. Rachel is also a long-term member of the team providing coverage of all the major RHS Flower Shows. Rachel’s other television series include Small Town Gardens and Gardening with the Experts for the BBC and Countrywise for ITV. 

Design projects include the LK Bennett Garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2008 and the floral decorations for the Royal Barge during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012. Rachel co-curated the RHS London Rose Show in 2016 and has been the key speaker and/or host for talks and events at The Ashmolean Museum, The Garden Museum, Highgrove, Hever Castle, The Charleston Garden Festival and The Royal Geographical Society. Rachel is Vice President of wild flower charity Plantlife, and an Ambassador for The National Garden Scheme. 

We are delighted Rachel will be speaking as part of our Winter Lecture Series.

 

 

Thursday 25 January
19:00–20:30

Naoko Abe
"Saving the blossom: Cherry Ingram and his rich legacy"

  
Thursday 8 February
19:00–20:30		 Raymond Blanc
An audience with Raymond Blanc

 
Thursday 22 February
19:00–20:30		 Jonathan Drori
"Around the world in 80 plants"		  
Thursday 7 March
19:00–20:30		 Juliet Sargeant
"Garden stories – connecting people with landscape"		  
Tuesday 19 March
19:00–20:30		 Rachel de Thame
"A wholistic approach to gardening for wellbeing and wildlife"		  

Our Winter Lecture series invites speakers from the world of horticulture, botany and beyond.
All talks take place in the Lecture Theatre at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW (directions).
Tickets are £20 or £80 for all five talks. These lectures are live only events and will not be recorded.
A drinks reception will take place after the lecture from 20:00 until 20:30 in the beautiful surrounds of the Museum. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic options will be available.
Tickets are available until the week before the event. 
Book your place here.