Most Popular Posts during the last 48 hours
-
Tag Archives: John Evelyn
Making Mountains and Music in Elysium…
As I hope I showed in a recent post John Evelyn the 17thc diarist and garden writer spent much of his life designing the perfect garden: Elysium Britannicum. It was to be an Eden encompassing a complete miniaturized version of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged alchemy, artificial stone, cave, coral, de caus, France, Garden of Eden, grotto, Italy, john Beale, John Evelyn, kircher, mount parnassus, mountains, mounts, music, paris, Rock, sound, tuileries, Utopia, wilderness, wind
1 Comment
The Golden Bough
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Mistletoe would it? So this is the first of a couple of posts about this mystical plant and the traditions surrounding it which are, according to Richard Mabey, ” amongst Northern Europe’s last surviving remnants … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Claude Lorraine, Druids, Hypnerotomachi, James Frazer, John Evelyn, mistletoe, Philip Miller, sacred groves, Stephen Switzer, Stowe, Stukeley, Virgil, William Kent
Leave a comment
Artificial Stone 1: the projector, the architect, the thief and the formula
Artificial stone has apparently been around a long time. It wasn’t invented recently by jerry builders trying to copy the real thing on the cheap, or even by a prestigious company like Haddonstone, but probably by the Romans. However not … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged artificial stone, batty langley, Coade, Daniel Pincot, John Bacon, John Evelyn, Longford Castle, Lord Burlington
Leave a comment
Tiglath-Pileser I & the passion he shared with William Robinson
It’s not every day that an exotically multi-syllabled king of ancient Assyria gets mentioned in the context of Brtain’s historic parks and gardens. But I was writing a lecture about early plant hunting and decided to start with evidence from antiquity when … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged arboretum, Bishop Compton, Capability Brown, Cedar of Lebanon, Chelsea Physic Garden, chiswick, Christopher Gray, Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Edward Lear, Francis Frith, Fulham Palace, George London, Goodwood, Gravetye, Highgate cemetery, Horace Walpole, Humphry Repton, John Claudius Loudon, John Evelyn, Lord Burlington, nurserymen, Pierre Belon, plant hunters, Sayes Court, trees, Uvedale, William Lucas, William Robinson, William Sherard, Wilton
Leave a comment
Garden Tools & Equipment…
Another parcel of books arrived yesterday and as I struggled to find room for them on the shelves it made me realise that there are an awful lot of books about gardens and gardening, quite a few about their history or … Continue reading
