Monthly Archives: May 2025

Anne Pratt : “the popular writer on botany”

Posted on 31/05/2025 by The Garden History Blog

It was The Times that called Anne Pratt “the popular writer on botany” but I suspect to most of us [me included] she’s an unknown &  forgotten woman. Yet that’s  a bit strange given that  she was one of the … Continue reading →

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Regency Gardens in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts

Posted on 24/05/2025 by The Garden History Blog

Ever since I’ve been researching garden history, one of my regular sources  for information about gardens in the Regency period  has been Ackermann’s Repository of arts an illustrated monthly British periodical that was published between 1809 and 1828. I was … Continue reading →

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Philip Miller and his Gardener’s Dictionary

Posted on 17/05/2025 by The Garden History Blog

I wonder if you’ve heard of Philip Miller.  If you’re not a garden historian then probably not,  but he was  probably the most influential British horticulturist and garden writer of the eighteenth century, amongst other things  writing the first dictionary … Continue reading →

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Wild Men

Posted on 10/05/2025 by The Garden History Blog

I did a double-take when I saw this relief carving on the house I stayed in at Ubeda in central Spain recently. Heraldry is symbolic but who or what on earth were the two figures supporting the coat of arms … Continue reading →

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Mushrooms and magic , fungi and fairies

Posted on 03/05/2025 by The Garden History Blog

Do you believe in fairies and magic? I’d guess that living in the 21st century the answer probably not. However, as I’m sure you realise,  there is a long history in virtually every culture of supernatural creatures and powers of … Continue reading →

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