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Cottage Gardens – Cabbages and Chocolate boxes

Posted on 22/05/2021 by The Gardens Trust

I wrote a couple of weeks back about the origin of the cottage garden,  and today I want to take the story forward and look at how by the middle of Queen Victoria’s  reign  rural cottages and their gardens had … Continue reading →

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Alice in Gardenland

Posted on 20/03/2021 by The Gardens Trust

I started this post a while back following a a visit to Christ Church for the Gardens Trust conference in Oxford in September 2019.  The visit had special significance for the Gardens Trust because Christ Church was once home to … Continue reading →

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The adventures of Maria Graham

Posted on 07/12/2019 by The Gardens Trust

As most people know the role of women in  garden history – ok all history – has been under-recorded and severely underrated.  But things are changing. In particular women’s  place  in the study and collection of plants in the late … Continue reading →

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Gardening in Miniature

Posted on 12/05/2018 by The Gardens Trust

Sorry to disappoint you if you thought you were going read a post about gardens in bottles, on saucers, mini-flower pots or bonsai.  Instead it’s a potential walk down Memory Lane for everyone who grew up between the wars, and … Continue reading →

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Walter Crane & his Floral Fantasy

Posted on 07/01/2017 by The Gardens Trust

I thought it would nice to start the year with something a little light-hearted, although as always with such things there is a more serious undertone.   Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. Born in 1845 he … Continue reading →

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