Tag Archives: Nottingham

An Easter Parade… of Roses in the Pub

Posted on 19/04/2025 by The Garden History Blog

Easter is always a difficult time for garden-related bloggers – there’s only a limited and rather obvious range of possibilities – bunnies, chocolate, easter lilies, ,passion flowers, chickens and eggs and over the last 12 years I’ve done most of them. … Continue reading →

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Mrs Montague : The Bluestocking Gardener

Posted on 21/02/2015 by The Garden History Blog

Elizabeth Montagu is best known today as one of the leaders of the bluestockings and a great lady of letters – she was ‘brilliant in diamonds, solid in judgement, critical in talk’ but it’s much less well known that she was an … Continue reading →