Tag Archives: hothouse

William Bull – Horticulture in Excelsis

Posted on 29/07/2023 by The Garden History Blog

As regular readers will know I have a soft spot for the stories of once-famous and now overlooked or even forgotten Victorian nurserymen. William Bull is another one you probably haven’t heard of, but who was absolutely pre-eminent in his … Continue reading →

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The Empress’s Greenhouse

Posted on 11/07/2020 by The Garden History Blog

Last week’s post about Josephine and the landscape at Malmaison left out any discussion of the plants grown there, so today’s post is going to make up for that, because it was plants that really captured her imagination. That meant, of … Continue reading →

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The Jardin des Plantes

Posted on 28/03/2020 by The Garden History Blog

I looked in the last post at the early history of Paris’s principal botanic garden, the former royal garden or the Jardin du Roi. Today’s is about what happened there between the French Revolution and today. It’s a good story … Continue reading →

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Beaudesert: “a desert beautified”

Posted on 27/07/2019 by The Garden History Blog

Beaudesert is/was an enormous estate in Staffordshire’, its name probably coming from the French for the surrounding landscape – “beautiful wilderness”. It has a reasonably well recorded architectural and contents history up to the demolition of the great Elizabethan mansion … Continue reading →

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How Orchids became a Librarian’s Nightmare

Posted on 16/02/2019 by The Garden History Blog

It maybe a strange title but this is really the story of a rich young man and his passion for plants or rather one particular kind of plant. James Bateman was the grandson and son of rich industrialists who had … Continue reading →