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Christmas & Birthday Quiz

Posted on 26/12/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Happy Christmas! It’s also two years since I started writing this blog, and I seem to have settled into a comfortable pattern of posting early on Saturday mornings. Some readers have obviously got used to that because I’ve had emails, … Continue reading →

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The Golden Bough

Posted on 19/12/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Mistletoe would it? So this is the first of a couple of posts about this  mystical  plant and the traditions surrounding it which are, according to Richard Mabey, ” amongst Northern Europe’s last surviving remnants … Continue reading →

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The colour of carrots

Posted on 05/12/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Monty Don has done it again. I write a post about scything and lawns and he demonstrates how to do it on The Secret History of the British Garden, then I began writing a post on Eleanor Coade and before I had time … Continue reading →

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The faithful pencil of Mrs Withers

Posted on 28/11/2015 by The Garden History Blog

The more I explore botanic art the more I realise how underestimated it has been as an art form, and the more I realise how underestimated botanical artists have been.  Of course part of the reason for that may well … Continue reading →

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Snaths, nibs, chines & very sharp dengles…

Posted on 21/11/2015 by The Garden History Blog

No, its not an extract from a Frankie Howard or Kenneth Williams script [giving my age away there] but something to do with the traditional centrepiece of most English gardens: the lawn. Nowadays its a relatively easy job to cut … Continue reading →

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