Tag Archives: 17thc

A Trip Advisor’s Guide to London Gardens……… in the 1690s

Posted on 10/12/2022 by The Gardens Trust

In the United Kingdom, garden visiting is an extremely popular occupation. In 2021 Kew had 1.25 million visitors  and RHS Wisley  nearly a million, while Westonbirt, Attingham and Edinburgh Botanic Gardens all also featured in top 20 visitor attractions in … Continue reading →

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Hard Graft and Devastation

Posted on 16/05/2020 by The Gardens Trust

We tend of think of garden history being just about the history of gardens but not really much about the history of gardening itself ie how things are done rather than what is actually done.  I was reminded of that … Continue reading →

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The Tradescants and their Tomb

Posted on 02/05/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Just before the virus struck I was at the Garden Museum in Lambeth helping out on a course. We were in the new Clore Learning Centre which overlooks the  courtyard garden designed by Dan Pearson, [featured in March edition of … Continue reading →

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The Tradescants

Posted on 25/04/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I’d just finished writing a post about something I’d seen at the Garden Museum when I  realised there might be some readers who wouldn’t know anything about the subject and would need a bit of background. So I started writing … 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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