Tag Archives: Samuel Broome

Flowers and a Duke open the gates…

Posted on 12/12/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Over the past few months we’ve examined the story of the London square, and the last post revealed the beginning of both a slow decline in status and tentative attempts to open them to the public. Today’s post is … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Cities

Posted on 05/12/2020 by The Gardens Trust

We saw last week that although new squares continued to be built in the middle of the 19thc the design was sometimes adapted and modified, and there was sometimes criticism of both the layout itself and increasingly of the planting. … Continue reading →