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“The Agreeable Occupation of Imitating Nature”
Today’s post is quite long but needs just a very short introduction… What do the thousands of white roses at Queen Victoria’s wedding have in common with mediaeval nuns, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s head, what your great-aunt Agatha probably had … Continue reading
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Tagged flowers, Great exhibition, Jeremy Bentham, Mintorn, Queen Caroline, Queen Victoria, wax
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Burchell in Brazil
Two recent posts have looked at the plant collecting and travels of William Burchell in St Helena and his more famous trek across South Africa. Today’s looks at the rest of his long life and especially his long plant hunting … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, plant hunters, Portugal, South Africa, william burchell, william hooker, william swainson
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The quirkier side of Chaumont
Last week’s post looked at the history of the chateau at Chaumont-sur-Loire, now home to the famous international garden festival. This week’s is going to look at some of the inspirational, if sometimes [ok often] quirky, gardens that have been … Continue reading
Chaumont
I’ve just come back from visiting the garden festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire. The great Renaissance chateau there has had a very chequered history, but for the last 28 years has been home to a wonderful celebration of gardens unlike any other … Continue reading
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Tagged androuet de cerceau, Elephant, France, garden festival, henri duchene, jardin anglais, living walls, medici, stables
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Beaudesert: “a desert beautified”
Beaudesert is/was an enormous estate in Staffordshire’, its name probably coming from the French for the surrounding landscape – “beautiful wilderness”. It has a reasonably well recorded architectural and contents history up to the demolition of the great Elizabethan mansion … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquarian, historic revivalism, hothouse, Humphry Repton, james wyatt, kitchen garden, Plas Newydd, Red Book, ruins, William Emes
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