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The Winter Garden

  • Thyme Lechlade, England, GL7 3NX United Kingdom (map)

Join creative garden designer Richard Miers and Daryll Taylor, Thyme’s Head Productive Gardener for a Winter Garden talk.

Richard and Darryl will discuss how to protect your garden throughout Winter. Which plants bloom, productive berries, decorative leaves, and vegetables that are sustainable throughout the Winter months. There will also be practical advice on how to best use Winter garden downtime to prep and restore your plants, buildings and equipment for Spring.

Richard will showcase some of his contemporary Winter garden designs. There will be time for questions after the talk, refreshments, and the option to explore Thyme’s gardens and meadows before a delicious lunch of seasonal produce.

The event will be hosted by Tiffany Daneff, Gardens Editor at Country Life Magazine.


The Winter Garden with Richard Miers and Daryll Taylor
£50.00

Join creative garden designer Richard Miers and Daryll Taylor, Thyme’s Head Productive Gardener for a Winter Garden talk.

Thursday 12th November, 10.00am

Richard and Darryl will discuss how to protect your garden throughout Winter. Which plants bloom, productive berries, decorative leaves, and vegetables that are sustainable throughout the Winter months. There will also be practical advice on how to best use Winter garden downtime to prep and restore your plants, buildings and equipment for Spring.

Richard will showcase some of his contemporary Winter garden designs. There will be time for questions after the talk, refreshments, and the option to explore Thyme’s gardens and meadows before a delicious lunch of seasonal produce.

10 - 10.30am - Guest Arrival & Refreshments

10.30 - 11.30am - Talk

11.30 - 12pm - Q&A

12pm onwards - Option to wander through Thyme’s gardens

12pm onwards - Lunch in The Ox Barn or The Swan

Tickets include a set menu lunch, refreshments and the talk. Please let us know if you have any dietary or seating requirements.

10-10.30am - Guest Arrival and Refreshments

10.30-11.30am - Talk

11.30am - Audience Q&A

12pm onwards - Optional walk to kitchen gardens

12pm onwards - Lunch in the Ox Barn or The Swan

*Talk and lunch tickets include access to the talk, welcome refreshments and lunch in the Ox Barn or The Swan a £30 allocation towards your bill. Guests may be seated on a communal table - if you have a seating preference, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you on the day.


Richard Miers

People's Choice Award winner at the RHS Chelsea flower Show, Richard’s work is defined by a deep understanding of plants, landscape and the enduring relationship between people and nature. With more than three decades of experience designing gardens across the UK and internationally, he has built a reputation for creating timeless, elegant landscapes that are as rewarding to live in as they are beautiful to behold.


Daryll Taylor

Daryll started his love of growing food, when training as a chef with Gary Rhodes at The Greenhouse, Mayfair. Joining Thyme in 2009, he spent 9 years leading the cookery school. He volunteered as a gardener in 2020, moving on to hone his skills as kitchen and garden liaison at Heckfield Place, before returning to Thyme in 2023, establishing our abundant productive gardens, designed by Bunny Guinness and Caryn Hibbert.



PLEASE NOTE OUR HAPPENINGS ARE NON REFUNDABLE, HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO ATTEND, PLEASE LET US KNOW 72 HOURS PRIOR TO THE EVENT, AND WE CAN TRANSFER YOUR DEPOSIT TO ANOTHER SCHEDULE OR TO A VOUCHER.

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