Monthly Archives: September 2021

Anne’s Grand Tour

Posted on 25/09/2021 by The Gardens Trust

We’re all familiar with the idea of the Grand Tour, where young elite men were sent to finish their education touring the great classical and Renaissance sites of Italy. This had been going on since the mid-17thc but the Napoleonic … Continue reading →

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John Glover & his “hideous fidelity to Nature”

Posted on 18/09/2021 by The Gardens Trust

WELCOME TO OUR 400th POST! This is an artist’s painting of his own house and garden. Any idea of where it might be? The artist was John Glover who was born near Leicester in 1767 but, despite the very English … Continue reading →

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The Gardener’s Year

Posted on 11/09/2021 by The Gardens Trust

“There are a number of ways of laying out a garden. The best is by taking on a gardener.” So opens a delightful book on gardens by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. Published in Prague in 1929 with  illustrations by … Continue reading →

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Electroculture

Posted on 04/09/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Did you know that the British Government spent the twenty years between the First and Second World Wars investigating the possibilities of electrifying plants?  And did so  in almost complete secrecy.  It means that last week’s perpetually electrified garden wasn’t … Continue reading →

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