Tag Archives: Mediaeval

Oronsay

Posted on 15/02/2020 by The Garden History Blog

I don’t often write about places I haven’t been but this is an exception for a place I’d like to go to. Like most of us I get magazines and newsletters from all sorts of organisations and usually just glance … Continue reading →

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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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