Events

Greytown Heritage Trust 2026 Annual General Meeting – Guest Speaker Lyn Eglinton

STUDIO 73, 73 MAIN STREET, GREYTOWN
Thursday 28 May 2026, 7.00pm.

Greytown Heritage Trust holds its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 28 May at 6.30 for 7.00 pm, at Studio 73, 73 Main Street Greytown.  There will be a little formal business and reporting but principally this is your opportunity to hear and meet Lyn Eglinton, renown and celebrated for her garden design and her garden of national significance, Stablehouse, in Masterton.

It’s a  garden of spaces and pauses, rooms and reveals.  Lyn cites Sissinghurst as her prompt for a career as a garden designer.  Harold Nicholson’s dictum for Sissinghurst as a " succession of privacies", infuses much of her own work to this day.

She first visited Sissinghurst Garden at aged 22 when her contemporaries were quaffing at the  Munich beer fest.Not another person was there on that late summer day.  Sackville-West's exquisite and extraordinary garden was, in that moment, Lyn’s alone. Unheard of amidst the rumpus of contemporary tourism, she climbed the tower to sit in Vita’s chair in her writing room.

  Sissinghurst stayed with her until 1996 when she enrolled in Landscape Design at university. Intervening years and reading and travel had embedded Lyn’s sensibilities very clearly in a style  which harbours restraint and an abiding sense of history.

Lyn speaks of  fancying the classics. A Fagus sylvatica hedge brings her joy in winter; as do varieties of Buxus. Favoured palates are lime green, white and silver. There’s delight in the architecture of pleached walks, fastigiate trees and topiary, cloud pruning and classic pottery planters.

You are invited to hear Lyn speak.  To explore with her, symmetry, light and shadow. And to share the premise of hope without which a gardener would fail to be a gardener.  

Greytown Heritage Trust holds its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 28 May at 6.30 for 7.00 pm, at Studio 73, 73 Main Street Greytown.  There will be a little formal business and reporting but principally this is your opportunity to hear and meet Lyn Eglinton, renown and celebrated for her garden design and her garden of national significance, Stablehouse, in Masterton.

Greytown Heritage Trust holds its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 28 May at 6.30 for 7.00 pm, at Studio 73, 73 Main Street, Greytown.                                       

RSVP to greytownheritagetrust@gmail.com