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May 2006: The English Manner was delighted to welcome the Ladies of the Garden Club of Houston, Texas to England. The Garden Club of Houston has a reputation for horticultural excellence in the United States, and The English Manner was proud to facilitate a tour of some of the finest gardens and brightest new talent in Britain. The Garden Club of Houston, founded in 1924 to ‘stimulate knowledge and love of gardening’, has been involved in numerous philanthropic enterprises over the years. These include the design and planting of gardens at the Hospice at Texas Medical Centre, Houston and the organisation of a ‘House and Garden Pilgrimage Day’ at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, a tradition kept up since their first Pilgrimage in 1931. Sir Alexander Muir-Mackensie of the English Manner, who accompanied them for part of their seven-day stay in England, remarked “their charm, experience and knowledge of all things horticultural was striking. ‘All the Houston Ladies were a pleasure to meet and taught me a thing or two about gardens!” The Houston Ladies began their stay at Kirby House – widely regarded as one of the finest examples of a Queen Anne House in the Royal County of Berkshire, it has panoramic views over seven counties. During their stay, our guests has the opportunity to take enjoy the delights of the Abbey House and Gardens in Malmesbury, the medieval Manor House of Cothay, the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Rosemoor, Devon, and the splendour of a Grade 1 privately-owned Palladian House described as “the most beautiful house in Devon”. The Ladies also enjoyed an exclusive tour of Hampton Court Palace Gardens, where Garden expert and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan related an animated and intimate history of one of Britain’s most famous Royal Parks. Lambeth Palace, the Museum of Garden History, and the Chelsea Physic Garden in London were also eagerly-anticipated parts of the Garden Club’s itinerary. Crowning the Ladies’ visit to England was an expert tour of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, in which the Lake Forest Garden Club won the first Silver Gilt Medal by an American Garden Club for their Ravine Garden: Gift of the Glacier.
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