Tag Archives: Roses

Brodsworth

Posted on 14/05/2022 by The Gardens Trust

As you probably know the Gardens Trust has been running an extensive on-line lecture programme for the last 2 years, including a regular Wednesday evening slot called Unforgettable Gardens.  April’s lectures were run in partnership with English Heritage and included … Continue reading →

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A Life in Miniature

Posted on 19/02/2022 by The Gardens Trust

A recent email from my friend Twigs Way had the headline “This is just SO quirky . .”  Clicking it open I found  a hyperlink and the message: “thought I would send it to a fellow lover of the ‘strange … Continue reading →

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A Young Man Among Roses

Posted on 12/06/2021 by The Gardens Trust

I’m sure that you’ll recognise this picture.   Its custodian, the V&A, says it “is perhaps the most famous of English miniatures. It epitomises the romantic Elizabethan age and is a masterpiece of miniature paintings by its greatest exponent, Nicholas Hilliard. … Continue reading →

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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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Hats off to Hyde Hall

Posted on 25/07/2020 by The Gardens Trust

A couple of weeks ago, as the lockdown started to lift and gardens began tentatively to re-open, I was taken to Hyde Hall, the Essex garden of the Royal Horticultural Society. I’ve been several times before and have always come … Continue reading →

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