Kew Guild
Category: Award Reports
2002, Jessica Beaghan, Bhutan, Providing Training At The Royal Botanic Garden
BHUTAN by Jessica Beghan I graduated from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Diploma in Horticulture course in 2002, clutching a whole host of prizes including the Ernest Thornton-Smith Travel Award for world travel,worth £2,000. The Kew Guild generously…
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Visit to Claude Monet’s Garden, Giverny, France by Tarja Ravenhal Claude Monet (1840-89) was first a gardener and secondly a painter. In his early life, he created gardens wherever he lived. He was very fond of Japanese-style gardens,…
Read More2001, Jessica Beaghen, Field Trip To Bhutan
Bhutan by Jessica Beaghen Words will never describe my trip to Bhutan adequately. I travelled there via Bangkok and Kathmandu on a long and arduous journey, not helped by a broken aeroplane and bad weather, although I am…
Read More2001, Louise Allen, PhD Research Project, Successful Local Involvement In Local Agenda 21
Successful Local Involvement in Local Agenda 21 by Louise Allen “Local authorities, as the level of government closest to people, have a vital role in educating and mobilising the public to get behind the goals of Agenda 21.”(UN,…
Read More2001, Ruth Bone, Study Tour, Giant Alpines Of Ecuador
Giant Alpines of Ecuador by Ruth Bone In June of this year I flew to the Andean city of Quito, a UNESCO world heritage site at an altitude of 2,500m. The Spanish colonial buildings of the Old Town…
Read More2001, Susyn Andrews, Research Into Lavender Spp, Jersey
A visit to Jersey Lavender Farm by Susyn Andrews As part of my ongoing research for the forthcoming publication of The Genus Lavandula, in the Botanical Magazine Monograph Series, I needed to revisit a lavender farm in Jersey,…
Read More2001, David Menzies, Field Trip To Study Orchids, South West Australia
An Orchid fieldtrip in South-Western Australia by David Menzies The First International Orchid Conservation Conference was held in Perth, capital of Western Australia from September 24th to 28th, 2001, and was attended by 130 delegates from 22 countries….
Read More2001, Hannah Gardner, Study Tour, Japan
Japan by Hannah Gardner As I look back on the summer of 2001 that has just come to a close, three weeks in particular bring back memories so vivid and so many in number that it is hard…
Read More2000, Alys Fowler, Study Of Grass Roots Community Projects In New York
Grass-roots community projects in New York by Alys Fowler In June 2000 I travelled to New York to study community outreach programmes. I had previously lived in New York for a year before coming back to London to…
Read More2000, Course 35, Field Trip To Andalucia
Andalucia 2000: A report of the Course 35 Field Trip hosted by Reading University 23rd March – 6th April 2000 by Christopher Weddell Shortly before Easter 2000, and with the majority of the Diploma Course completed, ten…
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