Peter Thurman: Designing and Working with Trees

About

May's Coffee Time Talk for Friends of Lewes features Peter Thurman, who will illustrate the beauty and tenacity of trees, explain their benefits and threats, and show examples of how they can be used in the landscape.

Peter Thurman is a member of The Trees Committee of Friends of Lewes, (Lewes Urban Arboretum Project). A Kew-trained landscape and garden designer and a tree, environmental and horticultural consultant with over 30 years' experience, he is also a published author, writer and teacher.

He is a fellow of the Arboricultural Association and the Chartered Institute of Horticulture, and has chartered status in trees, forestry, horticulture and the environment.

UK-based (living in North Chailey), Peter often works abroad with commissions as far afield as Italy, Japan, Dubai, Hong Kong, Finland, Germany, France and Belgium. He teaches and is an examiner at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the London College of Garden Design. He writes regularly for various professional journals and magazines and is in demand as a speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops.

This talk is free to members of the Friends of Lewes, and £4 to non-members. Non-members can buy a ticket (£4) from TicketSource  (https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/friends-of-lewes/), which will provide a link for this Zoom talk.

We will email FoL members with a Zoom link before the talk.

All FoL's talks are listed at friends-of-lewes.org.uk/diary/