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Painting the Gardens of History with Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale

Posted on 19/11/2022 by The Gardens Trust

What’s in a name? Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale sounds like an escapee from a Victorian 3-volume bodice-ripper or maybe the wicked governess in a  1920s girls comic – well that’s what I thought when I first saw her name.  That will … Continue reading →

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EVB

Posted on 24/09/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Any idea who or what EVB might be? I’ll save you the trouble of googling it – and tell you its not a German rail and bus company, nor an electric vehicle battery or an empirical valence bond whatever that … Continue reading →

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Are there Fairies at the Bottom of Your Garden?

Posted on 08/01/2022 by The Gardens Trust

I thought we should start off the year with something to make us smile and I recalled a line from Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy : “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having … Continue reading →

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Robinson Treehouses

Posted on 24/07/2021 by The Gardens Trust

This post started out as another “serious” look at the history of treehouses but has ended up a bit more off-beat than usual , somehow managing to include mentions of a well-known children’s book, a Disney film, donkeys,  bars in … Continue reading →

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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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