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Desert Island Discs & horticultural Robinson Crusoes

Posted on 14/08/2014 by The Garden History Blog

What on earth is the connection between historic parks and gardens and Desert Island Discs?   Until I starting researching Mr Middleton [see my last post] I wouldn’t have thought there was one BUT Mr Middleton was castaway by Roy … Continue reading →

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The first TV gardener…

Posted on 09/08/2014 by The Garden History Blog

THERE IS NOW AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST @ The Voice of the Nation’s Gardeners We’re all used to seeing gardening programmes on the TV these days,  hosted by an array of “celebrity” TV gardeners but I bet most … Continue reading →

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Wisteria….

Posted on 02/08/2014 by The Garden History Blog

I’ve just spent a couple of days visiting historic gardens around Cardiff, an area of the country that I did not know at all.  One of them was Dyffryn, an Italianate mansion set in a splendid Edwardian garden designed by Thomas … Continue reading →

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Garden Menageries… 1: Coombe Abbey

Posted on 25/07/2014 by The Garden History Blog

As gardeners and garden historians we are used to hearing about the discovery, trade and cultivation of non-native plants. We know that as western Europeans discovered, then traded with and finally conquered much of the rest of the world plant hunters … Continue reading →

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Elephants and the royal menagerie…

Posted on 17/07/2014 by The Garden History Blog

After a look at mechanical elephants in our parks and gardens I thought perhaps I should look at the place of the real thing there as well.   Garden menageries have a long history: the earliest recorded in Britain from the … Continue reading →

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