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Celebrating 501 posts and at least 121 gardens

APOLOGIES IF YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS POST LATE OR FOR A SECOND TIME WordPress discovered a glitch which blocked about half my mailing list  so they have told me to repost it. Continuing my trip down Memory Lane this week … Continue reading

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Celebrating 500 and 100 at the same time

Welcome to my 500th post.  To celebrate I’m going to take it a bit easier for the rest of this month and just do some  trips down Memory Lane. Today in particular, I hope regular readers remember the piece I … Continue reading

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Caring for Gods Acre

Lockdown walks  in London cemeteries and some visits more recently to country churchyards  set me thinking about how differently such sites are  maintained these days. No more sterile hard-mown grass everywhere with just a few plastic flowers to brighten the scene … Continue reading

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William Bull – Horticulture in Excelsis

As regular readers will know I have a soft spot for the stories of once-famous and now overlooked or even forgotten Victorian nurserymen.  William Bull is another one you probably haven’t heard of, but who was absolutely pre-eminent in his … Continue reading

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Natural History: “to be alive is to be watchful”

Whose 2000th birthday should we be celebrating this year?   Here’s a clue. He was a workaholic military officer and civil servant for the Emperor Vespasian,  and the author of the first book that resembled an encyclopaedia. Usually known as Natural History … Continue reading

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