Tag Archives: National Trust

Tredegar…Restoration grandeur and a dancing kangaroo

Posted on 09/07/2016 by The Garden History Blog

No sooner had I finished writing this post [many many months ago now] but Tredegar House was the subject of a TV programme with Griff Rhys Jones.  So, as I didn’t want to be thought a copycat, I decided to … Continue reading →

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Charles Essenhigh Corke

Posted on 23/04/2016 by The Garden History Blog

For garden and landscape historians some of the more obvious sources for knowledge of what a site  was like, and how it has developed, are paintings and, more recently photographs.   So it’s quite surprising that the name of  Charles Essenhigh Corke is not … Continue reading →

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Tyntesfield: the guano palace

Posted on 14/11/2015 by The Garden History Blog

My posts on nightsoil and guano [from July 2015,] got picked up by an article in the Guardian online – fame indeed! So here’s a postscript about the house paid for by the vast fortune made by William Gibbs, the owner of the monopoly … Continue reading →

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The Most Special Place in Wales…

Posted on 25/08/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Whats this? A post from P&G? But it’s not Saturday! Well I confess I haven’t written it and  although I wouldn’t normally re-post something written on another blog, since I’ve written about Dyffryn Gardens quite recently  [post 13th Dec 2014] when I saw this … Continue reading →

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Killerton

Posted on 22/08/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Earlier this year I went on a nostalgia trip back to Exeter where I was at college. One of the places I wanted to see again was Killerton, the home of my tutor Sir Richard Acland. Apart from being an extraordinarily inspiring … Continue reading →

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