Latest Diary Entry

June 2025

Published on June 1, 2025.

Art in the Orchard

Next Event

300 Year Adults Art Competition - Deadline For Submissions By E-mail

Sunday 15th June 2025 at 12:00

Please see the Adult Art competition page for further information.


Latest Article

Artist and Expatriate: Elizabeth Rivers, 1903 – 1964

Written by Miriam O'Neal.
Published on June 1, 2025.

Elizabeth, or Betty, was the sister of Thomas Hall Rivers, the last Thomas in the great succession of family directors of the Rivers Nursery. In her lifetime her art work attracted considerable attention - she exhibited and published volumes of prints and a book about her life in Ireland, A Stranger in Aran.

Adult Art Competition - Celebrating Rivers Heritage Site and Orchard in Art

This Rivers 300 event is for artists who have an interest in the natural world and orchards who want to celebrate Rivers orchard and its history in art and use it to inspire. Details available here.

General Information

The Rivers Nursery was founded in 1725. Throughout 2025, we will host several events to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the historic site. Please use the links on the left to navigate the site, or see below for more information.

Each month, Elizabeth Waugh will produce a Diary of the events of the previous month and what to look forward to in the coming months. Please visit the diary page to keep updated on our activities.

A series of articles about the history of the Rivers Nursery and the activities of the Rivers Heritage Site and Orchard RHSO will be published.

Events will be hosted around the local area throughout the year to celebrate the anniversary. The list will be updated, so please check back frequently. A full report of our 300 Year Celebration and Study Day can be found here. A report of our 300 year Wassail can be found in the February diary entry.

Pictures of our events throughout the year will be available in the gallery page.

The publicity leaflet for the 300 year celebrations is displayed below (click each page to view in new window), or click here to download the whole leaflet.



For further information about our work, please e-mail the RHSO committee or visit the main RHSO site. Join the RHSO mailing list for e-mail updates.