Tag Archives: Hatfield

Anne Rushout

Posted on 29/05/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Sometimes one stumbles across interesting people by pure chance. Today’s post is one such serendipitous discovery. I was looking for images for another post and found an interesting watercolour painting of a landscape by a woman I’d never heard of, … Continue reading →

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The Tradescants

Posted on 25/04/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I’d just finished writing a post about something I’d seen at the Garden Museum when I realised there might be some readers who wouldn’t know anything about the subject and would need a bit of background. So I started writing … 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 →