RHS Event in Aberdeen

[Maggi Young]

The Friends of the Cruickshank Botanic Garden and the Royal Horticultural Society are jointly hosting a talk:
        MONET AT GIVERNEY, with guest speaker CAROLINE HOLMES on Thursday March 13 in the (350 seater) Fraser Noble Lecture Theatre, Aberdeen University.
Drivers should enter from Bedford Road, first left from its junction roundabout with St Machar Drive, with parking near the lecture theatre.
Entrance is £3 for RHS members, non-members £5, including refreshments.
 
EVERYONE IS WELCOME AND THERE IS NO NEED TO BOOK AHEAD AS IMPLIED IN SOME OF THE ADVERTISEMENTS.

[Maggi Young]

Details from RHS :
This event is being hosted by The Friends of Cruickshank Botanic Gardens at the University of Aberdeen as part of the RHS Growing for Success Series. Guest speaker Caroline Holmes will be talking about when Claude Monet and his family moved to the Normandy village of Giverny, and how over the next 43 years he transformed his gardens in two distinct styles. The upper garden mixes perennials with annuals to kaleidoscopic effect as they catch the daily progress of the sun. The lower garden is serenely dominated by a sinuous naturalistic pool with waterlilies and weeping willows and his 'imperial throne' the Japanese Bridge. No statues but structures that took his floral compositions into the sky and provided optical illusions. As his good friend Clemenceau wrote: Monet's garden stands amongst his masterpieces, casting the spell that changes nature into painted works of artistic light.