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Prior Wibert’s Waterworks

Posted on 02/11/2019 by The Garden History Blog

One subject that always seems to raise a lot of interest on the courses I run about the history of gardens is the mediaeval garden.  Although most of us will have a vague picture of what we think they were … Continue reading →

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Percy Cane

Posted on 26/10/2019 by The Garden History Blog

Last week’s introductory post about Percy Cane –  An Unsung Hero?  – looked at his work pre-war, while today’s is going to discuss some of his later commissions. Like much of the architecture and most of the  designed landscapes and … Continue reading →

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An unsung hero?

Posted on 19/10/2019 by The Garden History Blog

Welcome to our 300th post! Hands up if you recognize the man in the photo. As  a clue he  wrote: “Designing gardens is an art… As in all the arts there are periods of growth and changing fashion, but the … Continue reading →

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Sneferu… and his garden

Posted on 12/10/2019 by The Garden History Blog

No… it’s not an old English dialect swear word, or a disease of sheep or anything remotely similar, instead Sneferu was an early Egyptian pharaoh who ruled around 4500 years ago. Like Ozymandias he would have been long forgotten but … Continue reading →

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Winifred Walker: “The most famous of all flower painters”

Posted on 05/10/2019 by The Garden History Blog

If I ask you to name the most famous of all flowers painters I very much doubt you’d reply Winifred Walker,  yet that’s how she was described by a national newspaper a century ago in 1919. The description might be a … Continue reading →

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