We are delighted to announce that the 2023 Garden Museum Literary Festival will be held at Parham House, West Sussex, hosted by Lady Emma Barnard and her husband, James.
This boutique annual festival is Britain’s only travelling Literary Festival, with previous hosts including Chatsworth House (2022), Helmingham Hall (2021), and Houghton Hall (2019). Each venue provides a space over two summer days for us to celebrate the best in garden writing and to share what inspires us in gardens.
Our 2023 Literary Festival will take place at Parham House, one of the country’s finest Elizabethan houses set at the foot of the South Downs in West Sussex. This beautiful place, with its award-winning gardens, has changed little over the centuries and remains a family home.
The festival will include talks by some of the UK’s most influential and award-winning garden designers and authors, as well as opportunities to explore the magnificent historic gardens and house at Parham.
This year we are pleased to offer six weekend tickets free of charge to students of horticulture and garden design. To apply, please submit around 100 words on why you would benefit from attending to info@gardenmuseum.org.uk, by Monday 22 May.
Picnic lunch orders are now closed.
Supplied by Joanna’s Boutique Tearoom, who oversee the catering at Parham, picnics are only available to buy in advance of the event and must be booked no later than Thursday 15 June.
For anyone who does not pre-book a picnic, there will be limited hot and cold refreshments available at the Mower Shed Cafe during the Festival.
Speakers include:
Advolly Richmond
Alan Titchmarsh
Alice Vincent
Amicia de Moubray
Andrew Humphris
Charlotte de Rothschild
Claudia Tobin
Lady Emma Barnard
Garry Fabian Miller
George Plumptre
Isabel and Julian Bannerman
Jeremy Musson
Jordan Goodman
Matthew Rice
Non Morris
Olivia Harrison
Robert Sackville-West
Robin Lane Fox
Sarah Barclay
Shane Connolly
Stephen Daniels
Tim Richardson
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Tom Stuart-Smith
More speakers and talk times to be announced soon
