The Life and Work of H. Avray Tipping

The Life and Work of H. Avray Tipping, Architectural Editor of Country Life for seventeen years from 1907, A Lecture by Helena Gerrish.

Among other interests, Avray Tipping  worked as a garden designer in the Arts and Crafts style, and was a friend of Gertrude Jekyll, Harold Peto and Edwin Lutyens. His gardens were characterised by divided compartments with sculpted yew hedging, topiary birds and animals, long grass bowling greens, lush planting and wild areas.^[4] His garden design works include the walled garden designed for Arthur Lee, its then owner, at Chequers, and several in his adopted county of Monmouthshire.

This event is organised by the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens in conjunction with the Art Fund, further details may be found on their website: http://www.nccpgguernsey.co.uk/events.html.