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Monthly Archives: November 2015
The faithful pencil of Mrs Withers
The more I explore botanic art the more I realise how underestimated it has been as an art form, and the more I realise how underestimated botanical artists have been. Of course part of the reason for that may well … Continue reading
Snaths, nibs, chines & very sharp dengles…
No, its not an extract from a Frankie Howard or Kenneth Williams script [giving my age away there] but something to do with the traditional centrepiece of most English gardens: the lawn. Nowadays its a relatively easy job to cut … Continue reading
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Tagged bowls, Charles McIntosh, clarendon, games, Garden tools, Hartwell, John Claudius Loudon, lawn, Philip Miller, scythe, Stephen Switzer
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Tyntesfield: the guano palace
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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Tagged arboretum, fertilizer, greenhouse, National Trust, orangery, William Gibbs
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Artificial Stone 1: the projector, the architect, the thief and the formula
Artificial stone has apparently been around a long time. It wasn’t invented recently by jerry builders trying to copy the real thing on the cheap, or even by a prestigious company like Haddonstone, but probably by the Romans. However not … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial stone, batty langley, Coade, Daniel Pincot, John Bacon, John Evelyn, Longford Castle, Lord Burlington
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