Monthly Archives: April 2016

Temple Newsam

Posted on 30/04/2016 by The Garden History Blog

A trip to Yorkshire for a wedding gave me a great opportunity to visit a garden I’ve always wanted to see: Temple Newsam, a wonderfully rambling imposing mansion  just a couple of miles from Leeds city centre.  Best known for its magnificent collections … Continue reading →

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Charles Essenhigh Corke

Posted on 23/04/2016 by The Garden History Blog

For garden and landscape historians some of the more obvious sources for knowledge of what a site  was like, and how it has developed, are paintings and, more recently photographs.   So it’s quite surprising that the name of  Charles Essenhigh Corke is not … Continue reading →

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Melbourne Hall

Posted on 16/04/2016 by The Garden History Blog

I’ve just found a new favourite garden.  Every so often, like most of us I suspect, I  visit a garden and go…wow I could live here but maybe I’d just alter this, move that, add a few of this or thats and so … Continue reading →

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Another side of Gertrude…

Posted on 02/04/2016 by The Garden History Blog

We probably all have a vision of Gertrude Jekyll based on the famous photos of her in later life – a dumpy but formidable old lady with dark clothes reaching to the ground and walking in a garden with the … Continue reading →

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