Tag Archives: gardeners

How naughty! some summer thoughts about erotic gardens

Posted on 15/08/2020 by The Gardens Trust

  August is traditionally the silly season in the press and today’s post is very much in that tradition. It was a bit of a surprise when I was searching for an image of garden statuary the other day on … Continue reading →

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On the Life of a Jobbing Gardener

Posted on 08/02/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I was giving some lectures recently on one of my favourite horticultural characters, John Claudius Loudon, who, having already written a shelf-load of books, in 1826 founded The Gardener’s Magazine, the first real piece of regular horticultural journalism. I had … Continue reading →

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Gardeners in London Street Cries…

Posted on 01/12/2018 by The Gardens Trust

  Listening to the stallholders in  Columbia Road Flower Market  crying their wares the other day struck a sad note. It’s the last gasp of a centuries old sales technique used round  much of the rest of the world, reminding … Continue reading →

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St Fiacre

Posted on 01/09/2018 by The Gardens Trust

I forgot to celebrate St Fiacre’s day last year. I bet you did too.   But I did better this year and did so in the appropriate surroundings of the Gardens Trust’s annual conference in Birmingham which is taking place … Continue reading →

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Thomas Bewick’s Gardens and Gardeners

Posted on 04/02/2017 by The Gardens Trust

Thomas Bewick, who was born in rural Northumberland in 1753, was an author, illustrator and publisher and became  ‘the father of modern wood engraving’.   His work is almost always instantly recognisable and his History of British Birds is really the first field guide for naturalists. … Continue reading →

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