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Edward Adveno Brooke and “The Gardens of England”

Posted on 14/04/2018 by The Garden History Blog

One of my favourite places to work and take students is the Lindley Library, part of the Royal Horticultural Society. It’s  interesting when taking groups there noticing how different things attract and appeal to different people. One book however always … Continue reading →

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Almost everyone’s least favourite tree…

Posted on 17/01/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Shouldn’t be too hard to decide what that is!  Horror stories abound – and it must be one of the few plants ever legislated about. Yet it all started out innocuously enough on a beautiful country estate in Mid-Wales in the 1880s. … Continue reading →

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Copped Hall revisited

Posted on 20/01/2014 by The Garden History Blog

The weather yesterday was wonderful so I decided to take my own advice [for a change] and went for a winter walk.  And having written recently about Copped Hall discovered that it had one its monthly open days I set … Continue reading →

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