Members with a keen interest in landscape design, historic parks and gardens (or considering training in this area) will be interested to hear of a new initiative between The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has partnered with the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to offer travelling scholarships.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) writes:
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has partnered with the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to create and fund a series of Travelling Fellowships aimed at supporting the development of the UK horticulture industry. The scheme, which will run until 2017, will offer two Travelling Fellowships each year to horticulturists and garden designers to discover new perspectives and generate innovative solutions to inform and further the UK’s reputation as a global centre of horticultural knowledge and expertise.
The Fellowships form part of a nationwide series of commemorative events taking place in 2016 to mark the tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, one of the United Kingdom’s most celebrated garden designers. Famed for popularising the English romantic style through an idealised interpretation of nature, Brown’s rolling landscapes and gothic ruins inspired a Europe-wide obsession for Jardins à l’anglaise.
