Monthly Archives: November 2025

The Marjorelle Garden – Where Cactus Meets Cobalt

Posted on 29/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

The Majorelle Garden is a tranquil urban oasis in the busy city of Marrakech, in the south of Morocco. It was begun by the French artist Jacques Majorelle in 1924 inspired in part by traditional Moroccan garden design but  with … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Box Ladies

Posted on 22/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

“Chocolate Boxy” is usually seen as a term of critical abuse in art history but I suspect most of us have a soft spot deep down for the overly romantic images that the term conjures up. One of the enduringly … Continue reading →

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A Franco-Japanese Fairytale Garden

Posted on 15/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

There can’t be many owners of grand gardens who stumbled across their dream home completely by chance but that’s what happened to Alain Jouno in the early 1990s. Strolling through Paris on 24th May 1994  he flicked through a magazine … Continue reading →

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The Voice of the Nation’s Gardeners

Posted on 08/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

We’re all used to seeing gardening programmes on the TV these days,  hosted by an array of “celebrity” TV gardeners like Alan Titchmarsh. However  earlier this year it was a much earlier celebrity gardener who was Titchmarsh’s subject when he … Continue reading →

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Peggy the Plantaholic Duchess

Posted on 01/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

Peggy  was one of the great figures of the social, scientific and horticultural circles of Georgian England. She was intelligent, curious about almost everything with a wide network of friends across all fields of knowledge but especially botany and other … Continue reading →

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