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Margaret Waterfield

Posted on 22/10/2022 by The Garden History Blog

Some of the posts on here have been a long time in the making. Today’s is one such. When I was researching a post about garden writer Mrs Earle way back in 2015  I discovered that a piece she  written … Continue reading →

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Early Garden Picture Books

Posted on 15/10/2022 by The Garden History Blog

When printing first reached western Europe books rarely had illustrations, and when they did they tended to be simple rather crude woodcuts which were few and far between. The quality of images improved gradually and by the mid-16thc books of … Continue reading →

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Know Your Onions….

Posted on 08/10/2022 by The Garden History Blog

Let’s start with a startling fact. What’s the world’s most global food crop? Is it Wheat? Rice? Potatoes?  or even the tomato that I wrote about recently? It’s nothing so obvious, rather it is the humble brown, red or yellowish … Continue reading →

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Fontainebleau

Posted on 01/10/2022 by The Garden History Blog

France is famous for its  grand gardens such as Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte and Fontainebleau  which  are the living proof of the superiority of man over nature and -only half in jest – of France and the French over everybody … Continue reading →

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EVB

Posted on 24/09/2022 by The Garden History Blog

Any idea who or what EVB might be? I’ll save you the trouble of googling it – and tell you its not a German rail and bus company, nor an electric vehicle battery or an empirical valence bond whatever that … Continue reading →

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