Author Archives: The Gardens Trust

Apologies if you’ve had difficulties accessing the last couple of posts. There seems to have been a glitch in the scheduling/publishing software., so please bear with me if it happens again. Everything should be back to normal early Saturday mornings … Continue reading →

I thought we should start off the year with something to make us smile and I recalled a line from Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy : “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having … Continue reading →

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welcome to the 9th year of the blog.  The numbers reading it  have continued to grow apace with about 129,000 hits over the course of the year, an almost 30% rise on last year’s already record number. … Continue reading →

This is the first time in the 8 years  I’ve been writing the blog that Christmas has fallen on a Saturday, but I didn’t want to break my unbroken record of  posting every week! So I thought I’d just say… … Continue reading →

One of things that I’ve always found fascinating about the history of gardens is the inventiveness of gardeners, and I don’t think there’s a period in horticultural history quite as inventive as the early 19thc.  That doesn’t mean that their … Continue reading →