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2020 on the blog…and the Annual Quiz

Posted on 26/12/2020 by The Garden History Blog

The quirks of the calendar mean that this is the last blog of 2020 and  that the blog has now been running for 7 years.  Like all 7 year olds it’s still growing, and at a pretty staggering rate.  This … Continue reading →

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“Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green…”

Posted on 19/12/2020 by The Garden History Blog

Writing a post for Christmas is never easy… unless there is an obvious  monstrosity to write about as there was in 2017 [check it out if you have managed to blank it from your mind!]  It would be easier  if … Continue reading →

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Flowers and a Duke open the gates…

Posted on 12/12/2020 by The Garden History Blog

Over the past few months we’ve examined the story of the London square, and the last post revealed the beginning of both a slow decline in status and tentative attempts to open them to the public.   Today’s post is … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Cities

Posted on 05/12/2020 by The Garden History Blog

We saw last week that although new squares continued to be built in the middle of the 19thc the design was sometimes adapted and modified, and there was sometimes criticism of both the layout itself and increasingly of the planting. … Continue reading →

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Fair and Square

Posted on 28/11/2020 by The Garden History Blog

Over the last couple of months I’ve done a series of posts about the history of the London square.  We looked at the origins of the square as an architectural form  in the 17thc, then  the development of planting in … Continue reading →

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