The Gardens Trust Blog
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A weekly blog about the fascinating world of garden history in its broadest sense. There are nearly 500 posts covering a wide range of topics from mechanical elephants to roof gardens, and from electroculture to the worlds oldest pot plant, via many individual historic sites, significant garden designers, artists and owners, as well plants, technology, books and conservation.
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4d ago
Last week’s Funny Faces were not the only hybrid art form that evolved in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Landscape painting was developing too, especially in the Netherlands and artists, such as Arcimboldo whose work I looked ..read more
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1w ago
We’re probably all familiar with funny faces like these although I suspect that most of us don’t know much more about them or the artist, except perhaps that his name was Arcimboldo. The obvious question is why a serious court ..read more
The Gardens Trust Blog
2w ago
Last week I explored the history of the former royal palace of Eltham, one of the favourite residences of medieval monarchs which was later almost abandoned and fell into decline before being rediscovered, redesigned and revitalised in the 1930s by ..read more
The Gardens Trust Blog
3w ago
Easter is a difficult time for bloggers, especially if you’re not someone of faith, so having looked at Easter lilies, Easter eggs, even bunnies I was running out of obvious things to cover. Of course the central theme of the ..read more
The Gardens Trust Blog
1M ago
Take a close look at these images. What are they? How, when and why were they drawn? Who thought of drawing them in the first place? Read on to find out the answers to all those questions and, of course ..read more
The Gardens Trust Blog
1M ago
I hope you didn’t hear Radio 4 last Monday morning at 9. If you did you can stop reading now…or maybe you were as absorbed as I was and want to find out even more about Rafflesia. “Start The Week ..read more
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1M ago
Apologies if you’re seeing this for the second time. There seems to have been a glitch in the system and it hasn’t gone out to everyone on the mailing list & that includes me! So I’m republishing. I haven’t even ..read more
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1M ago
Benington Lordship wears its long history with a welcoming smile. Lived in by the same family for well over a hundred years it has actually been inhabited since Saxon times. It still boasts the remains of a mediaeval castle as ..read more
The Gardens Trust Blog
1M ago
I’ve discovered I’m a snob. Not so much about people but about plants. I suppose I’d always known that I had that tendency but my trip last week to the Orchid Festival at Kew bought it home in no uncertain ..read more
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2M ago
The Gardens Trust is working towards publishing a book on Unforgettable Gardens and together with a few colleagues I’ve recently spent ages trying to decide which ones to include and why. Our debates reminded me of a similar dilemma which ..read more