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Caroline Holmes
Caroline Holmes is a garden historian and informative and entertaining academic. Caroline's practical and engaging talks have taken her all over the world, delving into the myriad ways people and plants have shaped landscapes. As well as being a highly revered speaker, Caroline is the author of 12 books ranging from 'Monet at Giverny' to 'Where the Wildness Pleases: The English Garden Celebrated.'
About Caroline Holmes
Aside from her speaking and literary accolades, Caroline is known for her presenting work. During 2020 she presented Monet’s Garden at Giverny for Viking TV. In 2022, she presented ‘Explore English Homes and Gardens’ for Viking TV, as well as in her own garden.
Presenting Telling the Stories of England in 2016, Caroline was filmed in Sussex at Gravetye Manor and Petworth as well as Bury St Edmunds. She co-presented the TV series Glorious Gardens a garden design and history series for Anglia, Meridian and Channel TV as well as guesting on many gardening programmes. She has presented several BBC Radio Four series including the award-winning New Shoots, Old Tips and A Sun Parched Country about drought in Australia.
As a speaker, Caroline has spoken on every continent except Antarctica. She is an academic tutor for the University of Cambridge ICE (Institute of Continuing Education) also acting as representative on the Courses Review Panel. She is also Course Director for their International Summer Programmes and Virtual Festivals of Learning.
To book Caroline Holmes, contact The Speakers Agency on +44(0)1332 810481 or email enquiries@thespeakersagency.com
A symphony in blue – the artist, the couturier and Atlas the most fabulous mountaine of all Africke
Painter and plantsman: Cedric Morris, irises and beyond
Permission to Poison – the Alnwick Garden
The Memphis before Elvis – plants and gardens in Ancient Egypt
Australia’s Impressionists – The Heidelberg School, Fontainebleau and the zenith landscape
Impressionists in their gardens – living light and colour
Messenger or missile – Angels with glad tidings, doom, gloom or perdition
Monet at Giverny
Artists’ Views of Australia – Aboriginal, Pioneer, Botanical and Impressionist
Engraved on my heart – Mary Tudor, the Cloth of the Field of Gold and Notre- Dame-de- Calais
Sheer Folly – weird and wonderful Garden buildings
Bory Latour-Marliac, the genius behind Monet’s Water Lilies
Step into the Christmas Card
The Folly and the Ivy
The Edwardian Garden – golden and delicious
Flowers of Impressionist Youth: World War One and their Remembrance
Herbs for Gourmet gardeners
Sheer Folly – garden history and its architectural extravaganzas
Around the world in three years with Captain James Cook and Joseph Banks – an overview of the people, plants and places
Gainsborough and Brown – eighteenth century landscapes from wider perspectives
A Royal country house estate – Sandringham
Design and diversity – the University Botanical Gardens, Cambridge
Medieval Gardens fit for use or delight
Motifs and motivators – water lilies, irises and sea shells
William Robinson, Gravetye Manor and Bory Latour-Marliac, a story of water lilies, prunes and wine
How does your garden grow Mr. Shakespeare?
Historic Gardens of East Anglia
Cruise lectures include:
Still Waters Run Deep – the magic of Dutch Still Life Paintings
Artists’ views of the life of Christ and the cryptic messages
Monet Normandy and the birth of the Impressionist movement
Pre Raphaelite paintings in Liverpool – reading the symbols
Gothic to Gaudi – history in stones, architecture and Catalan identity
Castles, Palaces and Houses of Queen Elizabeth II
Innovation and romance, Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Serving King and country – Gallipoli and the lost Sandringham Company
A taste for the exotic – global plants naturalised
Georgian landscape capabilities – Gainsborough and Brown
Around the world in three years – James Cook and Joseph Banks
Carl Linnaeus and horticultural exchanges across the high seas
Ruhleben – Berlin’s racecourse to WW1 internment camp
Sunlight on snow – Monet in Norway
Water as power and pomp – Peterhof, a Baroque masterpiece
A not so cool history – Sea Island Cotton
Can you eat buccaneers? Unzip a banana and other Caribbean food stories
Fatal attraction the darker side of plants
Is Coral suffering from tooth decay?
It’s a rum solution to industrial waste
Take your Turk’s cap off to cactus
A palette of adaptation – Mediterranean garden plants
Oranges and lemons – the many zests of Mediterranean citrus
Shellshocker – Venus, goddess of love and gardens with Flora
The Italian Garden template – the spectacular, theatrical Villa d’Este
An overview of French garden history with special reference to the Abbaye Saint-Andre
Fit for purpose – the Medieval Garden from Charlemagne to the Benedictines
Lifting the Bamboo curtain – nineteenth century new shoots to contemporary waves
Roman Gardens – architecture, illusion and plantsmanship
Seasoned landscapes – olives, vines, fruit and herbs along the Rhone
Aphorisms of Hippocrates unbound
Behind the label – Greeks immortalised in plants
Other people’s odysseys – Homer to Leigh Fermor
Vines, wines and Have some Madeira, m’dear
A Floral Mosaic – Madeira and the Canaries
A more propitious clime – glass in the garden
A right royal setting – Kew
A world resource for 200 years – the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
A walk through domestic English garden history
A walk through grandee garden history
Fit for use of delight – Medieval Gardens
Keats and the Regency Garden
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown – moving heaven and earth
Order, Power and Conceit – Tudor Gardens
The Chelsea Gardener and Philadelphia’s Plant Hunter
Carbon trading in Mozambique
Charles Darwin, the Beagle and other observations
Hidden histories – the Lotus and the blue water lily
Joseph Hooker – plant hunter and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Linnaeus, his plant hunters and the 18th century botanical w.w.w.
Marianne North – a remarkable Victorian traveller and painter
People, Plants and Places – Darwin to Dylan
A Floral kingdom – plants of the Cape
Reunion – a little French history spiced with vanilla and cloves
Seychelles – land and sea
Sir Samuel Baker, the Bawa brothers and landscaping Sri Lanka
