Tag Archives: John Evelyn

Caring for Gods Acre

Posted on 05/08/2023 by The Garden History Blog

Lockdown walks  in London cemeteries and some visits more recently to country churchyards  set me thinking about how differently such sites are  maintained these days. No more sterile hard-mown grass everywhere with just a few plastic flowers to brighten the scene … Continue reading →

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Putting Gardens in Perspective ….17thc style

Posted on 14/08/2021 by The Garden History Blog

You might have got the impression from the last couple of posts that it was only contemporary gardeners who were capable of doing things in the spirit of the Silly Season  but there are plenty of examples in history too, … Continue reading →

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The Jardin du Roi

Posted on 21/03/2020 by The Garden History Blog

I was supposed to be researching something serious the other day, when, as so often, I saw something much more interesting and decided to follow that lead instead. It was an image of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris that … Continue reading →

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Sylva Old and New

Posted on 22/02/2020 by The Garden History Blog

If you’ve heard of John Evelyn before now it’s probably because of his diaries which are one of our major sources of information about  the major events of the mid/late 17thc, and much much more besides. They gives a really … Continue reading →

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Making Mountains and Music in Elysium…

Posted on 13/10/2018 by The Garden History Blog

As I hope I showed in a recent post John Evelyn the 17thc diarist and garden writer spent much of his life designing the perfect garden: Elysium Britannicum.  It was to be an Eden encompassing a complete miniaturized version of … Continue reading →

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