Tom Coppin, a horticultural BSc graduate from Writtle College, has succeeded in gaining his first graduate gardening job as a full-time gardener at the Gardens of Easton Lodge, near Dunmow.
Coppin joins the gardens just as the Gardens of Easton Lodge Preservation Trust has taken over the management. Plans for restoration of the design commissioned by the Countess of Warwick in 1901 from the famous Edwardian designer Harold Peto are now in the pipeline. “I am really looking forward to caring for and developing the Gardens,” said Coppin.
“It is a big adventure for us all,” says chair of the trust Bella D’Arcy, “and we are delighted to have such an enthusiastic and capable gardener such as Tom working with us.”
The gardens will be part of a new horticultural course being launched by Writtle College to start this year in Historic Garden Management.
This course will give students the opportunity to specialise in the management of historic gardens and designed landscapes. Key areas of study will include an exploration of historic garden design styles in Britain and beyond, planting design over time and the horticultural and management skills required to conserve these landscapes.
As the course progresses students will learn how to assess and develop an understanding of the heritage value of historic landscapes through the application of archival and field research to specific sites.
Horticultural honours degrees at Writtle College can be studied over three years full-time or four years part-time with an industrial placement.
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