Tag Archives: Mediaeval

Anne and Osbert’s Pleasure Garden

Posted on 04/01/2020 by The Garden History Blog

HAPPY NEW YEAR! We all have our favourite gardening books, whether for the quality of  the illustrations, -usually the first thing one  notices when flicking through – the quality of the writing – which takes more time to appreciate or … Continue reading →

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Prior Wibert’s Waterworks

Posted on 02/11/2019 by The Garden History Blog

One subject that always seems to raise a lot of interest on the courses I run about the history of gardens is the mediaeval garden.  Although most of us will have a vague picture of what we think they were … Continue reading →

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The perfect monastic garden?

Posted on 31/08/2019 by The Garden History Blog

Happy St Fiacre’s Day!   [and if you don’t know who he is click on the link! ] which makes it a very  appropriate day for  today’s post which is all about this rather dull looking image on the right. … Continue reading →

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Hulne Priory

Posted on 08/07/2017 by The Garden History Blog

Sometimes you visit a historic house or garden and think to yourself…. I could live here. Sometimes you have second thoughts and add …if only it wasn’t so remote or inhospitable a setting.  That was certainly my reactions on visiting Hulne … Continue reading →

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Saints, Sinners, Sex and Strawberries…

Posted on 20/05/2017 by The Garden History Blog

Strawberries are quintessentially English. Or so you’d think. But actually they’re not. Although there are indigenous European strawberries the ones we eat are hybrids derived from a species from New England and another from Chile  introduced surreptitiously into France in … Continue reading →

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