Farewell Hortus
Please join us for a celebration of 40 years of Hortus, described by Monty Don as 'treasured as any of the thousands of gardening books that I possess. My collection is not com-plete. Hortus began in 1987, but the essence of Hortus is not its unquestioned accumulation of superb writing, ideas and inspiration but of the freshness and newness that arrives each quarter. Gardeners have a default weakness of retreating to a comfort zone, celebrating and even clinging to the familiar when confronted with change or challenge. Hortus never does this. It has the wisdom of the long view and the delight of the immediate. For all its gravitas and style, it is never solemn, never dull, never unaware that we are all intrinsically absurd. But at the same time it takes as its starting point that gardens are always about love, humanity and a deep reverence for the natural world in all its complexity and wonder and from this springs great writing It is a treasure.'
Editor and founder David Wheeler has chosen ten favourite articles from the hundreds he has commissioned, and we'll have a panel of Hortus writers to talk about what the Journal has meant to them - and to shaping the modern garden.
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Please join us for a celebration of 40 years of Hortus, described by Monty Don as 'treasured as any of the thousands of gardening books that I possess. My collection is not com-plete. Hortus began in 1987, but the essence of Hortus is not its unquestioned accumulation of superb writing, ideas and inspiration but of the freshness and newness that arrives each quarter. Gardeners have a default weakness of retreating to a comfort zone, celebrating and even clinging to the familiar when confronted with change or challenge. Hortus never does this. It has the wisdom of the long view and the delight of the immediate. For all its gravitas and style, it is never solemn, never dull, never unaware that we are all intrinsically absurd. But at the same time it takes as its starting point that gardens are always about love, humanity and a deep reverence for the natural world in all its complexity and wonder and from this springs great writing It is a treasure.'
Editor and founder David Wheeler has chosen ten favourite articles from the hundreds he has commissioned, and we'll have a panel of Hortus writers to talk about what the Journal has meant to them - and to shaping the modern garden.
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