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Bristol historian is to uncover garden secrets at Jenner Museum
The garden at the Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire, home of the 18th century vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner, will reveal more of its secrets in a research project by a historian at Bristol University. Dr. Clare Hickman of the university’s department of archaeology and anthropology has been funded by the Wellcome Trust to look at the ways Jenner used his garden to further his medical knowledge. Edward Jenner (1749 – 1823) used his garden and the surrounding landscape at Berkeley in Gloucestershire to observe the natural world and conduct experiments. Through his work he developed his insight into smallpox which led to his life- saving vaccine for the disease. He also built a rustic hut in the garden, dubbed the ‘Temple of Vaccinia’, in which he vaccinated the poor people of the area against the disease free of charge. “Designed landscapes of this period have generally been described in terms of their aesthetics, pleasurable uses or as displays of power. However, they were also used as laboratories and places of spectacle by medical men,” said Dr. Hickman, who is also researching the London garden of another 18th century doctor, the surgeon John Hunter. The project will use the history of the gardens to enrich understanding of these doctors and their work.
Dog Days weekend returns to Westonbirt
Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, is to welcome back its canine companions on 26th and 27th February, when it hosts the Dog Days weekend. This year, the search will be on for the prettiest and most handsome pooches when the Scruffts crossbreed dog show returns.
Dogs galore at Westonbirt Two guided walks around Westonbirt’s dog-
friendly Silk Wood will take place each day, hot drinks and food will be on offer and visitors will be met with stalls, demonstrations, arena displays and specialists providing expert advice on dog nutrition and wellbeing. Admission is £7 for adults, £6 concessions and £3 children. Friends of Westonbirt Arboretum go free.
www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt-dogdays
Conservation Trust celebrates 50 years Fifty years ago Sir Peter Scott, along with a group of naturalists created Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation. Their vision was to protect the county’s wildlife and wild places for future generations. In 2004 GTNC was renamed Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and has now grown beyond all measure from a handful of volunteers to over 25,000 supporters with over 60 nature reserves.
Now in 2011 the Trust has big plans in the Forest of Dean and Cotswold Water Park to promote these unique landscapes and biodiversity to local communities and join up fragmented landscapes, restoring and recreating new wildlife havens. Future plans include extending the schools and education programmes.
www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk
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A rose by any other name: Webbs’ Paul Barnard and Kim Campbell with the Love Never Dies rose
Hospice in Kidderminster and Mary Stevens Hospice in Stourbridge. Webbs is donating £1 from the £7.99 purchase price of each of the newly named roses sold this year to be split between the hospices. Webbs Executive chairman Ed Webb said, “What better way to show your loved one how much you will always care than giving them this beautiful red rose. Rather than cut flowers, which don’t last long, the Love Never Dies rose can be planted so will remind you of your love year after year.” The rose is now on sale at Webbs, Wychbold and Webbs, West Hagley and also available online at
www.webbsdirect.co.uk
Give a long lasting gift of love for Valentine’s Day
Lovers are being urged to give their valentine a beautiful red rose – Love Never Dies – and help their local hospices at the same time. The red rose was named in a competition last year which was organised by Webbs Garden Centres to be sold in aid of Kemp
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