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“Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green…”

Posted on 19/12/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Writing a post for Christmas is never easy… unless there is an obvious  monstrosity to write about as there was in 2017 [check it out if you have managed to blank it from your mind!]  It would be easier  if … Continue reading →

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An Englishman’s Home is his Castle – or Mr Wemmick and Me

Posted on 13/06/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I wrote a few months about Dickens and his garden at Gad’s Hill and also about the way he uses gardens in his novels.  Today I was  just going to look at one rather quirky Dickensian character and his rather … Continue reading →

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Copped Hall revisited

Posted on 20/01/2014 by The Gardens Trust

The weather yesterday was wonderful so I decided to take my own advice [for a change] and went for a winter walk.  And having written recently about Copped Hall discovered that it had one its monthly open days I set … Continue reading →

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