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Josephine @ Malmaison
The story of how a 32 year widow from Martinique escaped the guillotine and then met and fell in love with the a young Corsican general during the French Revolution is the stuff of romantic novels. It’s one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, australia, Boats, Empress Josephine, ferme ornee, France, garden bridge, garden buildings, jardin anglais, Joseph Banks, Marly, menagerie, Napoleon, temple, Thomas Whately, Versailles
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The Chinese Garden in Montreal
It was just about the last thing I expected on a short visit to Montreal last October: a Chinese Garden. In Europe we’ve been used to Chinoiserie for over 300 years but while some examples are genuine imitations [if … Continue reading
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Tagged bonsai, botanic garden, Canada, china, Fishing, garden festival, Rock, rock garden
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Sissinghurst: The Shock of the Old
The very word Sissinghurst conjures up the glories of the English garden. It must be the most photographed and written about garden in the country and it’s certainly the most popular of the National Trust’s gardens. In fact it’s been … Continue reading
An Englishman’s Home is his Castle – or Mr Wemmick and Me
I wrote a few months about Dickens and his garden at Gad’s Hill and also about the way he uses gardens in his novels. Today I was just going to look at one rather quirky Dickensian character and his rather … Continue reading
The Pergola, Hampstead.
My favourite garden in London is very sadly currently out of bounds to the public because of covid19, although I have just taken advantage of the slight relaxation of the lockdown to walk around the outside. But if I can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, Italianate garden, kitchen garden, london, pergola, Thomas Mawson
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