Tag Archives: Joseph Banks

More Monkey Puzzling

Posted on 04/12/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Last week I looked at the discovery of the Monkey Puzzle tree by Europeans and at the very first specimens introduced to Britain by Archibald Menzies, and today I’m going to look at how it was introduced to British gardens … Continue reading →

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The Monkey Puzzle

Posted on 27/11/2021 by The Gardens Trust

If there is one unusual tree most of us will be able to name without much botanical knowledge or any reference books it surely must be the monkey puzzle. They became very popular in the mid-late 19thc and whenever you … Continue reading →

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The Empress’s Greenhouse

Posted on 11/07/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post about Josephine and the landscape at Malmaison left out any discussion of the plants grown there, so today’s post is going to make up for that, because it was plants that really captured her imagination. That meant, of … Continue reading →

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Josephine @ Malmaison

Posted on 04/07/2020 by The Gardens Trust

The story of how a 32 year widow from Martinique escaped the guillotine and then met and fell in love with the a young Corsican general during the French Revolution is the stuff of romantic novels. It’s one of the … Continue reading →

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Lawnmowers on Legs

Posted on 25/05/2019 by The Gardens Trust

As regular readers will know many of these posts are sparked by a chance discovery while researching something completely unrelated. Todays is certainly one of those odd quirks of fate. I was looking at an article in a Country Life … Continue reading →