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The Garden at Lion Rock

Posted on 26/02/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Where is the oldest extant garden complex in the world? To be honest I don’t know – let me know if you do – but today’s post is about what must be one of the contenders for that title. … 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 →