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Beaudesert: “a desert beautified”

Posted on 27/07/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Beaudesert is/was an enormous estate in Staffordshire’, its name probably coming from the French for the surrounding landscape – “beautiful wilderness”. It has a reasonably well recorded architectural and contents history up to the demolition of the great Elizabethan mansion … Continue reading →

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Hard or Soft?

Posted on 20/07/2019 by The Gardens Trust

No I’m not talking about how you like boiled eggs [or even Brexit] but one of the great debates in the history of garden design which has been between the relative importance of the hard landscaping of architects and the … Continue reading →