Tag Archives: Gardeners Magazine

Arundel Castle and the Collector Earl’s Garden

Posted on 02/02/2019 by The Gardens Trust

I’ve been meaning to write about the gardens of Arundel Castle since I visited last summer with friends from the Birkbeck Garden History Group and discovered the new[ish] Collector Earl’s Garden with [amongst other things] Oberon’s Palace, a floating … Continue reading →

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Austin & Seeley

Posted on 26/01/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Many months ago I posted several pieces tracing the story of Eleanor Coade and her artificial stone, which ornamented elite buildings and gardens in the later 18thc. A later post looked at the work of Mark Blanchard and John Blashfield … Continue reading →

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George Glenny- perhaps the most cantankerous Victorian gardener imaginable

Posted on 21/07/2018 by The Gardens Trust

If you were asked to name a great Victorian garden writer I bet John Claudius Loudon, William Robinson, or Shirley Hibberd would spring to mind immediately- but what about George Glenny? He was as prolific as the rest of them, started … Continue reading →

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Robert Gauen & his ingenious horticultural inventions No.2

Posted on 01/10/2016 by The Gardens Trust

Earlier this year ago I shared the secrets of a machine for putting the bloom back onto cucumber, grapes and other fruits. It was one of the products of the fertile imagination of Robert Gauen, an early 19th Southampton nurseryman. … Continue reading →

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The faithful pencil of Mrs Withers

Posted on 28/11/2015 by The Gardens Trust

The more I explore botanic art the more I realise how underestimated it has been as an art form, and the more I realise how underestimated botanical artists have been. Of course part of the reason for that may well … Continue reading →