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A Franco-Japanese Fairytale Garden

Posted on 15/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

There can’t be many owners of grand gardens who stumbled across their dream home completely by chance but that’s what happened to Alain Jouno in the early 1990s. Strolling through Paris on 24th May 1994  he flicked through a magazine … Continue reading →

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The Voice of the Nation’s Gardeners

Posted on 08/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

We’re all used to seeing gardening programmes on the TV these days,  hosted by an array of “celebrity” TV gardeners like Alan Titchmarsh. However  earlier this year it was a much earlier celebrity gardener who was Titchmarsh’s subject when he … Continue reading →

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Peggy the Plantaholic Duchess

Posted on 01/11/2025 by The Garden History Blog

Peggy  was one of the great figures of the social, scientific and horticultural circles of Georgian England. She was intelligent, curious about almost everything with a wide network of friends across all fields of knowledge but especially botany and other … Continue reading →

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An Aztec Herbal

Posted on 25/10/2025 by The Garden History Blog

Gardens and medicine are closely intertwined in every culture, and were even more so in the past when most remedies were derived from plants. Yet much of that knowledge has been lost and  I suspect few of us these days … Continue reading →

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Elsie’s garden

Posted on 18/10/2025 by The Garden History Blog

In 1926 a 54 year old woman who had  inherited a riverside house decided to create  a garden.  Nothing particularly startling about that although it was thought  at the time by some of her friends that she didn’t know the … Continue reading →

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