Monthly Archives: March 2020

The Jardin des Plantes

Posted on 28/03/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I looked in the last post at the early history of Paris’s principal botanic garden, the former royal garden or the Jardin du Roi. Today’s is about what happened there between the French Revolution and today. It’s a good story … Continue reading →

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The Jardin du Roi

Posted on 21/03/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I was supposed to be researching something serious the other day, when, as so often, I saw something much more interesting and decided to follow that lead instead. It was an image of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris that … Continue reading →

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The Daffodil King of Tooting

Posted on 14/03/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Inspiration for this week’s post came from daydreaming & looking out of the window and noticing some daffodils coming into flower. I remembered that ages ago I wrote a couple of posts about their history: The Daffodil most dainty and … Continue reading →

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Dinomania

Posted on 07/03/2020 by The Gardens Trust

It’s not just children who love dinosaurs, everybody seems to, and that includes Historic England who have just put several of them on the 2020 Heritage At Risk Register. And no… that’s not because our leading heritage body is about … Continue reading →