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The Cottage Garden and its origins

Posted on 08/05/2021 by The Gardens Trust

We all know what a cottage garden looks like don’t we?  We might even be able to describe its main features, although a short  definitive account is quite elusive. So where does the phrase come from? When is it first … Continue reading →

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A picture is worth a thousand words: Drawing Tudor Royal Gardens…

Posted on 06/02/2021 by The Gardens Trust

At Christmastide 1497 a great fire broke out in Henry VII’s private chambers in the mainly wooden mediaeval palace at Sheen in Surrey. It burned for 3 hours destroying a large part of the building  but it was reported that the … Continue reading →

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More on Lyveden

Posted on 23/01/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post looked at the background to the building of Lyveden New Bield by Sir Thomas Tresham in the very last few years of Elizabeth I’s reign.  We began a tour of the garden and ended having reached the … Continue reading →

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Lyveden

Posted on 16/01/2021 by The Gardens Trust

We all know that houses and gardens are the product of their creators, sometimes almost inextricably so. But we also know that houses get altered, rebuilt or even demolished from time to time while gardens are even more ephemeral and … Continue reading →

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The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh?

Posted on 09/01/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post looked at the evidence for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and ended with archaeologists excavating Babylon in the late 19th/early 20thc  unable to find any real sign of them. Today’s is going to continue the story and … Continue reading →

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