Tag Archives: de caus

Putting Gardens in Perspective ….17thc style

Posted on 14/08/2021 by The Gardens Trust

You might have got the impression from the last couple of posts that it was only contemporary gardeners who were capable of doing things in the spirit of the Silly Season  but there are plenty of examples in history too, … Continue reading →

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The Eighth Wonder of the World?

Posted on 28/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post was about Salomon de Caus’s career in England. It ended when James I’s daughter, Princess Elizabeth, who de Caus was tutoring, married Frederick, the Elector Palatine in 1613 and moved to Heidelberg.  This might have been a … 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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Making Mountains and Music in Elysium…

Posted on 13/10/2018 by The Gardens Trust

As I hope I showed in a recent post John Evelyn the 17thc diarist and garden writer spent much of his life designing the perfect garden: Elysium Britannicum.  It was to be an Eden encompassing a complete miniaturized version of … Continue reading →

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