All In A Garden Green

Introducing the Caledon Library's Gardening Collection!
Sunday, May 18, 1 - 3 p.m. SLT
Robbiani Gardens, Caledon Morgaine
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Miss Kaye Robbiani and Mr. JJ Drinkwater invite you to a Garden Party, to view the newly created Gertrude Jekyll Gardening Collection for the Caledon Library.

Come explore the controversies and conventions of 19th century gardens and gardening, and enjoy the Gardens, both formal and natural, of the Robbiani-Lyle Estate in Caledon Morgaine.

At 2 p.m. Miss Robbiani will give a short garden tour and presentation on Fashions in 19th Century English Gardening, with some remarks on "The Great Garden Debate", the tensions between Landscape Designers, advocating a style in harmony with nature, and Architects, who, seeing the garden as an extension of the house, argued for a more formal, traditional design, with both sides claiming to represent the true English Garden.

We will also offer refreshments, good music and dancing, and good company!

Dress: Semi-formal, with Big Hats

gentlebeings, your servant

JJD