Jubilee Dutch Guild of Head Gardeners
The Dutch Guild of Head Gardeners celebrated its fifteenth jubilee year in style with a weekend at the estate of Twickel. They asked Monique to give a lecture on the garden of Sissinghurst.
DetailsMonique is a green heritage researcher and a garden landscape architect. The combination of researching the past and advising about the future makes her work unique. She chose this profession to be able to give historic gardens and landscapes a future and to create places which people would enjoy. The Spirit of the Place is the core of all her work. Monique shares and conveys her knowledge by means of research reports, designs, publications, articles and lectures. Her work field stretches from estates, gardens and landscapes to villages, towns, cities and public spaces.
Monique works in England for the National Trust at Sissinghurst Castle and in the Netherlands from her studio on the Duno estate.
The Dutch Guild of Head Gardeners celebrated its fifteenth jubilee year in style with a weekend at the estate of Twickel. They asked Monique to give a lecture on the garden of Sissinghurst.
DetailsFrom 2018 onwards Monique’s work will be concentrated in both The Netherlands and the UK, where Sissinghurst research and advice will continu.
DetailsA garden club of only men, calling themselves The Garden Men, has asked Monique to give a lecture about the influence of her work on Sissinghurst. It was a very animated evening for a totally enthusiastic and interested public of men and their wives.
Monique’s first article ‘Working at Sissinghurst’ for the garden magazine TUINSeizoen is recently published.
Every month Monique writes a blog about Sissinghurst on the website of the Dutch NGS, the ‘Nederlandse Tuinenstichting’. Her Christmas blog is about the White Owl of Sissinghurst.
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Previous episodes are to be found here
The graphic artist Neil Gower has been asked to design a new map of the Sissinghurst Garden and Monique works with him to get it up to date.
DetailsThe council of Asten would like to protect its valuable green heritage and asked Monique to embed this in several ways in their council policy.
The only pond in Harold and Vita’s garden was made into a sunken garden and will be reinstated. To do this properly, a historic research is required and currently underway.
Now the structure of the garden is realised and the paths are finished, we have started with the plant scheme.
DetailsA design is currently being made for the space between the Little North Garden and the Orchard to create a flowing route for visitors and to make this little backspace into a worthy part of the Sissinghurst garden.
The new owners of Miserden Nursery in a beautiful spot of the Cotswolds, asked Monique to improve the nursery design- and function-wise.
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