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The Turf Maze

Posted on 12/11/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Way back in  April 2021  I wrote a piece about the  Elizabethan painting below, which as you can see from the detail, has a maze in the background.   It struck me as an unusual things to put into a … Continue reading →

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Gardening Advice from a Squint-Eyed Monk

Posted on 29/10/2022 by The Gardens Trust

I’ve written several posts on early gardening books, but today’s post goes back even further. It’s about the first gardening book in European history which dates from around 830-40AD. It  was written by a Benedictine monk who spent most of … Continue reading →

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Prior Wibert’s Waterworks

Posted on 02/11/2019 by The Gardens Trust

One subject that always seems to raise a lot of interest on the courses I run about the history of gardens is the mediaeval garden.  Although most of us will have a vague picture of what we think they were … Continue reading →

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The perfect monastic garden?

Posted on 31/08/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Happy St Fiacre’s Day!   [and if you don’t know who he is click on the link! ] which makes it a very  appropriate day for  today’s post which is all about this rather dull looking image on the right. … Continue reading →

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Visiting a Duke 18thc style…

Posted on 09/02/2019 by The Gardens Trust

At the end of last year I wrote  about the travel journals of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington. His diaries are, unlike most 18thc published writing, quite informal in style , probably because he  had no intention of putting his … Continue reading →

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