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Josiah Wedgwood and a plateful of Green Frogs
It’s now just over ten years since the Wedgwood Collection, one of the most important industrial archives in the world and a unique record of over 250 years of British art, was saved by the Art Fund from sale and dispersal. … Continue reading
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Whiteknights and the spendthrift Duke
A few weeks ago, purely by chance, I came across an illustrated guide written in 1816 for a garden called Whiteknights which was in its day probably the most famous garden in the country. The guide was so intriguing that … Continue reading
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The Maharaja and his German gardener
When was the last time you needed a passport to visit a garden? Or indeed had to walk past heavily armed police to go in? We ran into that problem on my recent visit to south India, although luckily the … Continue reading
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William Nesfield: soldier, artist & landscape designer
There can’t be many great landscape gardeners who, as a young man, fought against Napoleon in the Peninsular War or against the Americans in the War of 1812. Yet one who did both went on to become a well-known artist … Continue reading
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Ooty and its botanic garden
One of the highlights of my recent trip to southern India was to visit the botanic gardens in a place known now as Udhagamandalam, (officially at least) although I didn’t hear anyone anywhere call it that. Instead they all talked … Continue reading
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