Monthly General Meeting at Crofton Halls
18th February 2025, 15:30 - 17:30
Doors open at 3:30pm for refreshments until the main meeting starts at 4pm
The World Garden, Lullingstone - Tom Hart Dyke
Tom Hart Dyke, plant hunter, first shot to international prominence in the year 2000, when he was kidnapped in the Colombian jungle on a plant hunting expedition that went dangerously wrong. On the day the guerillas told him he would die, he planned a world garden for his ancestral home, Lullingstone Castle, “I spent the remainder of the day drawing plans, in my diary, for a World Garden – containing the plants I had collected from across the globe, planted out in their respective countries of origin. I wanted this plant filled extravaganza of a worldly garden to pay homage to the amazing achievements of plant hunters especially during the Victorian and Edwardian era”.