Madoo in Manhattan: Tania Compton
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025
Tania Compton
The Peripatetic Gardener
Introduction by Jennifer Ash Rudick
The Cosmopolitan Club
122 East 66th Street
New York, NY
Cocktail Reception | 6:00 pm
Lecture | 7:00 pm
Tickets: $150 (Madoo members get 10% off; use your member code)
$350 host committee (includes dinner with Tania Compton following the lecture. )
The Madoo Conservancy is pleased to welcome garden designer and writer Tania Compton as its special speaker for the 9th annual Madoo in Manhattan lecture. Compton will focus on her 20-year gardening project at historic Fonthill House in Wiltshire, along with her work on the Formal Garden at Grade I–listed Longford Castle near Salisbury and at Vanners in Berkshire, alongside famed architect Ptolemy Dean. Other topics of discussion include her Mediterranean-inspired garden designs on Ibiza and in the Peloponnese.
For sponsorship opportunities please contact info@madoo.org.
Tania Compton worked in the Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine before switching gears to garden design in the late 1980s, when she held formative posts gardening for Penelope Hobhouse at Tintinhull and for Rosemary Verey at Barnsley House. At the home she shares with her husband, botanist Jamie Compton, in Spillsbury Farm in Tisbury, Compton oversees 10 acres of streamside meadows and is an aficionado of natural dyeing, using tints produced by the plants on her land.
She is the author of The Private Gardens of England and the co-author (with Andrew Lawson) of Dream Gardens, a trustee of the Garden Museum in London, and is a contributing garden editor to The World of Interiors.
Past Madoo in Manhattan speakers have included: Jinny Blom, Fernando Caruncho, Nigel Dunnett, Enzo Enea, Todd Longstaff-Gowan, Cassian Schmidt ,and Peter Wirtz.
Special Thanks: Janet Mavec, Fremont Blue Events and The Graphics Office
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025
Tania Compton
The Peripatetic Gardener
Introduction by Jennifer Ash Rudick
The Cosmopolitan Club
122 East 66th Street
New York, NY
Cocktail Reception | 6:00 pm
Lecture | 7:00 pm
Tickets: $150 (Madoo members get 10% off; use your member code)
$350 host committee (includes dinner with Tania Compton following the lecture. )
The Madoo Conservancy is pleased to welcome garden designer and writer Tania Compton as its special speaker for the 9th annual Madoo in Manhattan lecture. Compton will focus on her 20-year gardening project at historic Fonthill House in Wiltshire, along with her work on the Formal Garden at Grade I–listed Longford Castle near Salisbury and at Vanners in Berkshire, alongside famed architect Ptolemy Dean. Other topics of discussion include her Mediterranean-inspired garden designs on Ibiza and in the Peloponnese.
For sponsorship opportunities please contact info@madoo.org.
Tania Compton worked in the Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine before switching gears to garden design in the late 1980s, when she held formative posts gardening for Penelope Hobhouse at Tintinhull and for Rosemary Verey at Barnsley House. At the home she shares with her husband, botanist Jamie Compton, in Spillsbury Farm in Tisbury, Compton oversees 10 acres of streamside meadows and is an aficionado of natural dyeing, using tints produced by the plants on her land.
She is the author of The Private Gardens of England and the co-author (with Andrew Lawson) of Dream Gardens, a trustee of the Garden Museum in London, and is a contributing garden editor to The World of Interiors.
Past Madoo in Manhattan speakers have included: Jinny Blom, Fernando Caruncho, Nigel Dunnett, Enzo Enea, Todd Longstaff-Gowan, Cassian Schmidt ,and Peter Wirtz.
Special Thanks: Janet Mavec, Fremont Blue Events and The Graphics Office
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025
Tania Compton
The Peripatetic Gardener
Introduction by Jennifer Ash Rudick
The Cosmopolitan Club
122 East 66th Street
New York, NY
Cocktail Reception | 6:00 pm
Lecture | 7:00 pm
Tickets: $150 (Madoo members get 10% off; use your member code)
$350 host committee (includes dinner with Tania Compton following the lecture. )
The Madoo Conservancy is pleased to welcome garden designer and writer Tania Compton as its special speaker for the 9th annual Madoo in Manhattan lecture. Compton will focus on her 20-year gardening project at historic Fonthill House in Wiltshire, along with her work on the Formal Garden at Grade I–listed Longford Castle near Salisbury and at Vanners in Berkshire, alongside famed architect Ptolemy Dean. Other topics of discussion include her Mediterranean-inspired garden designs on Ibiza and in the Peloponnese.
For sponsorship opportunities please contact info@madoo.org.
Tania Compton worked in the Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine before switching gears to garden design in the late 1980s, when she held formative posts gardening for Penelope Hobhouse at Tintinhull and for Rosemary Verey at Barnsley House. At the home she shares with her husband, botanist Jamie Compton, in Spillsbury Farm in Tisbury, Compton oversees 10 acres of streamside meadows and is an aficionado of natural dyeing, using tints produced by the plants on her land.
She is the author of The Private Gardens of England and the co-author (with Andrew Lawson) of Dream Gardens, a trustee of the Garden Museum in London, and is a contributing garden editor to The World of Interiors.
Past Madoo in Manhattan speakers have included: Jinny Blom, Fernando Caruncho, Nigel Dunnett, Enzo Enea, Todd Longstaff-Gowan, Cassian Schmidt ,and Peter Wirtz.
Special Thanks: Janet Mavec, Fremont Blue Events and The Graphics Office