Tag Archives: forestry

100,000 trees might fetch £100,000 and a few medals

Posted on 16/10/2021 by The Gardens Trust

We often talk of the English landscape garden with the emphasis on garden but the wider landscape was equally important in design terms and far more significant in economic terms. Landowners planted trees to ornament their estates for aesthetic as … Continue reading →

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Immortalising the ephemeral: The painter, his patrons and their plants

Posted on 08/08/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I wrote recently about the gardens and the greenhouse that Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, created at Malmaison near Paris. Employing some of the leading botanists and gardeners in France, and never short of a franc or two, … Continue reading →

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Sylva Old and New

Posted on 22/02/2020 by The Gardens Trust

If you’ve heard of John Evelyn before now it’s probably because of his diaries which are one of our major sources of information about the major events of the mid/late 17thc, and much much more besides. They gives a really … Continue reading →

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The Harcourt Arboretum or how to become a millionaire by growing pine trees

Posted on 07/09/2019 by The Gardens Trust

I’m at the Gardens Trust conference in Oxford this weekend and thought it would be nice to blog about something related to our proceedings. So I obtained an advance copy of the conference brochure which is, as always, packed with … Continue reading →