Tag Archives: elizabeth of bohemia

Fireworks – part 1: Here be Dragons!

Posted on 23/10/2021 by The Gardens Trust

In honour of the fact that November 5th is looming on the calendar I thought I’d be topical and investigate the history of fireworks in our parks and gardens. I soon discovered that fireworks have very little to do with … 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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Garden Menageries… 1: Coombe Abbey

Posted on 25/07/2014 by The Gardens Trust

As gardeners and garden historians we are used to hearing about the discovery, trade and cultivation of non-native plants. We know that as western Europeans discovered, then traded with and finally conquered much of the rest of the world plant hunters … Continue reading →