Trafodion

Occasional Writings for the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust

Edited by Bettina Harden. There have been two issues of Trafodion, Nov 2011 and Nov 2012.

Members should now have received Trafodion 2. It will be made available online in November  2013.
Extra  copies are currently available from the Bothy £5 plus £1.20 P&P
To order please send a cheque made out to WHGT mailed to
WHGT, The Bothy, Aberglasney, Llangathen, SA32 8QH

Trafodion 1 is available electronically here.

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The Bulletin is a regular newsletter for WHGT members. The latest issue is here.

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Some back issues are available here. A bibliography of early editions can be found here.

 

H Avray Tipping

Helena Gerrish, Chairman of the  Monmouth branch has just published a book on H. Avray Tipping an important Edwardian writer on the country house and their gardens as well as a significant Arts and Crafts garden designer.

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Henry Avray Tipping (1855-1933) was a wealthy architectural historian and garden designer. As Architectural Editor of Country Life he made it essential reading for everyone interested in Britain's great country houses, their furnishings and their gardens. Tipping restored a bishop's palace for himself and his mother and  built one of the last important country-houses in which to entertain the Edwardian great and good. After the First World War Tipping commissioned his ideal 'cottage'. Always the garden came first; each was a perfect Edwardian idyll.

A fine gardener herself, Helena describes Tipping's own Momnouthshire gardens at Mathern Palace, Mounton House and her own High Glanau Manor, as well as gardens he designed for others, notably at Chequers and Darrington Hall. Tipping, who had no family of his own, was central to the lives and work of such distinguished garden designers as Robinson, Jekyll and Peto. On his death he ordered his papers to be destroyed and left his considerable fortune to his gardener.

 

Historic Parks and Gardens in Ceredigion by Caroline Palmer, Penny David and Ros Laidlaw was first published in 2004 and now is available in a second edition.

The publishers, The Ceredigion Branch of the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust, are delighted to have sold the entire first print run of 750 copies in less than two years.

The reprint has given the authors the opportunity to update certain entries in the light of new information which has come to light as a result of readers’ knowledge. The selection of 31 gardens described in detail remains the same, but as Caroline says: “Real enthusiasts who have already purchased a copy may also want the second imprint, for they will find significant amendments in the entries concerning Trawsgoed, Cilgwyn, Glandyfi Castle and Tanybwlch. It was also particularly exciting to be able to incorporate a newly-discovered architect’s design, believed to be by Thomas F. Pritchard for Penglais mansion. At Trawgoed also, a damaged estate map of 1756 has now been painstakingly restored by the National Library of Wales and can be reproduced in this edition and more accurately interpreted”.

The book is distributed through the Welsh Books Council and costs £12. This means that it should be readily available to order through any bookshop (ISBN 0-9547525-0-3). Copies can also be obtained from the authors as before.

 

Gerddi was an occasional peer-reviewed publication produced by the WHGT. It featured topical research on historic parklands and gardens in Wales and beyond.

It is no longer produced.