Tag Archives: redoute

Immortalising the ephemeral: The painter, his patrons and their plants

Posted on 08/08/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I wrote recently about the gardens and the greenhouse that Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, created at Malmaison near Paris. Employing some of the leading botanists and gardeners in France, and never short of a franc or two, … 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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A Maiden’s Blush: the first book of Roses

Posted on 13/04/2019 by The Gardens Trust

The British Library Rare Books room is not usually the place where people get over-excited, but occasionally there are Eureka moments. Sometimes they’re the result of long patient reference checking when you realise your original hypothesis is true, or ploughing … Continue reading →