Tag Archives: baroque

Batty’s arti-natural Principles

Posted on 29/07/2017 by The Garden History Blog

The wonderfully named Batty Langley was a gardener’s son who followed in his fathers footsteps and then turned surveyor, landscape gardener, artificial stone maker, would-be architect and garden designer, as well as prolific author.  Well  he had to do something … Continue reading →

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The Hanging Gardens of Stoke Edith

Posted on 11/02/2017 by The Garden History Blog

The British galleries in the Victoria & Albert Museum hold many treasures but probably none more interesting to lovers and historians of gardens than two large early 18thc wall hangings from Stoke Edith in Herefordshire.  They show elaborate formal garden scenes in … Continue reading →

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Tredegar…Restoration grandeur and a dancing kangaroo

Posted on 09/07/2016 by The Garden History Blog

No sooner had I finished writing this post [many many months ago now] but Tredegar House was the subject of a TV programme with Griff Rhys Jones.  So, as I didn’t want to be thought a copycat, I decided to … Continue reading →

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Melbourne Hall

Posted on 16/04/2016 by The Garden History Blog

I’ve just found a new favourite garden.  Every so often, like most of us I suspect, I  visit a garden and go…wow I could live here but maybe I’d just alter this, move that, add a few of this or thats and so … Continue reading →

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