Tag Archives: Cedar of Lebanon

The Empress’s Greenhouse

Posted on 11/07/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post about Josephine and the landscape at Malmaison left out any discussion of the plants grown there, so today’s post is going to make up for that, because  it was plants that really captured her imagination. That meant, of … Continue reading →

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A Garden of surprises: Upton House

Posted on 10/12/2016 by The Gardens Trust

Upton is a surprise: let me correct that, Upton is a series of surprises. I happened to be passing reasonably close by and was looking for somewhere to break the journey. So I checked the  flash new National Trust website to … Continue reading →

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Tredegar…Restoration grandeur and a dancing kangaroo

Posted on 09/07/2016 by The Gardens Trust

No sooner had I finished writing this post [many many months ago now] but Tredegar House was the subject of a TV programme with Griff Rhys Jones.  So, as I didn’t want to be thought a copycat, I decided to … Continue reading →

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Capability Brown and Africa… did you really say Africa?

Posted on 07/05/2016 by The Gardens Trust

I’ve just returned from a month in southern Africa and was bowled over by the range of plants and landscapes that I encountered in the western Cape and Namibia.  I can’t stop enthusing about what I saw but wondered how … Continue reading →

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Tiglath-Pileser I & the passion he shared with William Robinson

Posted on 11/10/2014 by The Gardens Trust

It’s not every day that an exotically multi-syllabled king of ancient Assyria gets mentioned in the context of Brtain’s historic parks and gardens.  But I was writing a  lecture about  early plant hunting and decided to start with evidence from antiquity when … Continue reading →

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