Friends of Lewes Talk for members: ‘Lewes Climate Hub’ replacement for Designing and Working with Trees, Tuesday 14 March 2023, 10:30am

A Coffee Time Zoom talk for Members

Peter Thurman’s talk has unfortunately been postponed, but Juliet Oxborrow has kindly stepped in, and will tell us all about the Lewes Climate Hub, and its impending move to Lewes House.

 

Peter Thurman: Designing and Working with Trees

Peter’s talk will illustrate the beauty and tenacity of trees, explain their benefits and threats, and show examples of how they can be used in the landscape.

Peter ThurmanPeter Thurman is a member of The Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes, (Lewes Urban Arboretum Project). A Kew-trained landscape and garden designer and a tree, environmental and horticultural consultant with over 30 years’ experience, he is also a published author, writer and teacher.

He is a fellow of the Arboricultural Association and the Chartered Institute of Horticulture, and has chartered status in trees, forestry, horticulture and the environment.

UK-based (living in North Chailey), Peter often works abroad with commissions as far afield as Italy, Japan, Dubai, Hong Kong, Finland, Germany, France and Belgium. He teaches and is an examiner at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the London College of Garden Design. He writes regularly for various professional journals and magazines and is in demand as a speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops.

These talks are for members of the Friends of Lewes. If you would like to join FoL, and attend our talks, please find details on our Membership page. We send Zoom links to our members a few days before each talk, so please join in time! You can contact our Membership Secretary via email.

 


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