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Literary Dorset Gardens
Date: Wednesday, 11th March 2026
Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Cost: FREE
Venue: Borough Gardens House, DT1 1RG
THS Chair and Academic Director, Mark Damon Chutter will talk about the varied gardens of Hardy's Cottage, Max Gate, Talbothays Lodge and Old Fordington Vicarage.
Hardy's gardens were important to him and reflect his personality, his writing and his love of nature. From the cottage of his childhood, filled with flowers, herbs, an orchard with old local apple varieties and bee hives, to Max Gate, the garden he designed with its large lawns, winding paths, kitchen garden, a pet cemetery for his beloved dogs and cats and the sarcen megalith he named "The Druid Stone".
Mark's great uncle was gardener at Talbothays Lodge, owned by Hardy's sister, Kate, and his grandmother lived at Old Fordington Vicarage before it was sadly demolished.
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