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John Weeks: Horticultural Architect

Posted on 16/09/2017 by The Garden History Blog

I’m always amazed by the way that some now fashionable upmarket residential areas have a different, more working class past  often with horticultural connections. Belgravia, for example, is built on the site of the Neat Houses, once London’s largest concentration … Continue reading →

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Cardiff Castle

Posted on 09/09/2017 by The Garden History Blog

I hardly ever watch television but my eye was caught recently by a programme on John Patrick Creighton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, who was one of the wealthiest men of his day, but one with a social conscience and a … Continue reading →

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Vertumnus and Pomona

Posted on 02/09/2017 by The Garden History Blog

It’s a sign of how seriously classical imagery and culture underlines western civilization that many of the characters  associated with gardens and gardening are derived directly from it.  A few like Flora and Ceres, who were major deities, are  widely  … Continue reading →

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Owen Thomas 2: from Chatsworth to Windsor.

Posted on 26/08/2017 by The Garden History Blog

  This is the second part of the story of Owen Thomas, the son of an Anglesey labourer who rose to the peak of the horticultural profession and became Queen Victoria’s gardener at Windsor and Frogmore.  Last week’s post finished with … Continue reading →

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Owen Thomas: 1: Anglesey and beyond…

Posted on 19/08/2017 by The Garden History Blog

Last year I wrote a post about Harry Higgott Thomas the garden writer and journalist who was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour. Whilst doing the research I discovered that his father, Owen Thomas, also gained one of the first VMHs … Continue reading →

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