Monthly Archives: September 2019

The Eighth Wonder of the World?

Posted on 28/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post was about Salomon de Caus’s career in England. It ended when James I’s daughter, Princess Elizabeth, who de Caus was tutoring, married Frederick, the Elector Palatine in 1613 and moved to Heidelberg. This might have been a … Continue reading →

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Solomon de Caus in England

Posted on 21/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Roy Strong in The Renaissance Garden asserts, quite rightly, that early writers on garden history seem to have overlooked the huge part played in garden design in the late 15th to early 17thc by engineers. The Renaissance humanist mind saw no … Continue reading →

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The Prince and the Tomato

Posted on 14/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

La Bourdaisière is just one small chateau in the Loire Valley among dozens and dozens of others. It sits on a rise dominating its immediate surroundings, and in the middle of its parc classé [the equivalent of a registered historic park … Continue reading →

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The Harcourt Arboretum or how to become a millionaire by growing pine trees

Posted on 07/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

I’m at the Gardens Trust conference in Oxford this weekend and thought it would be nice to blog about something related to our proceedings. So I obtained an advance copy of the conference brochure which is, as always, packed with … Continue reading →