Author Archives: The Garden History Blog

I was listening to Radio 3’s Composer of the Week recently where the subject was Thomas Linley,  an English contemporary of Mozart I’d never heard of.  The music was impressive but  then I caught mention of a visit that Linley … Continue reading →

Continuing the silly season… The Garden of Eden has moved … again!  Last week it was in China, Somaliland, Sri Lanka or the Seychelles but I’ll let you into a secret  it was actually at the North Pole. Sorry, that’s … Continue reading →

The August silly season continues… “My first approach to the Garden of Eden was from the west while tracking a lion”  so opens an account by a respected British explorer and archaeologist when he found Eden in Somaliland in the … Continue reading →

Summer time is always associated with garden visiting but the next few posts are going to be about a garden you’re unlikely ever to be able to visit.  Yet it’s probably the most well known and most talked about garden … Continue reading →

We’ve been having a bit of a hydrangea-fest here recently. Over the last couple of years my partner has become more and more interested in growing them and we’ve been visiting gardens in both Britain and France to see more. … Continue reading →