{"id":505,"date":"2017-03-10T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/hertford-and-district\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-03-10T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:31:54","slug":"february-6th-2017-five-centuries-of-women-and-gardens-clare-gittings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/hertford-and-district\/2017\/03\/10\/february-6th-2017-five-centuries-of-women-and-gardens-clare-gittings\/","title":{"rendered":"February 6th 2017 &#8211; &#8220;Five Centuries of Women and Gardens&#8221; Clare Gittings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of our Speaker meeting on Monday 6th February 2017 continued as Women and the Arts.\u00a0 Our speaker was Clare Gittings who before retirement worked at the National Portrait Gallery for 24 years and chose as her subject &#8220;Five centuries of women and their gardens&#8221;.<br \/>\nIt was a most entertaining talk with excellent power point images.\u00a0\u00a0 Clare ranged widely from aristocratic women who could afford to create exotic gardens and travel as plant collectors to later housewives growing vegetables and fruit and herbs to feed and doctor their households.<br \/>\nMany were formidable women who, denied other outlets, turned to gardening for solace,comfort and to use their intelligence.\u00a0 Individual women gardeners mentioned were Bess of Hardwick,\u00a0 Mrs Delaney of paper flower decoration, Daisy Warwick, Vita Sackville-West and Beth Chatto among others.<br \/>\nFor centuries woman have been important to gardens and gardens important to women.<br \/>\nLooking at some of the slides of estate gardens one could see they were fine works of art<br \/>\nAn evening greatly enjoyed by Hertford and District Soroptimists and their Friends.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-507\" src=\"\/hertford-and-district\/files\/2017\/03\/Gittings-4-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker Meeting 6 January 2017 CLARE GITTINGS 'Women and Gardens'\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/hertford-and-district\/files\/2017\/03\/Gittings-4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/hertford-and-district\/files\/2017\/03\/Gittings-4.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Meeting 6 January 2017 CLARE GITTINGS &#8216;Women and Gardens&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of our Speaker meeting on Monday 6th February 2017 continued as Women and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>February 6th 2017 - &quot;Five Centuries of Women and Gardens&quot; Clare Gittings | News | Blog | Events | SI Hertford and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Hertford and District : Blog &amp; News : February 6th 2017 - &quot;Five Centuries of Women and Gardens&quot; Clare Gittings : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Hertford and District . 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