Tag Archives: Wilton

The English Travels of Cosimo III

Posted on 17/04/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Apologies to regular readers for the false alarm about a post yesterday. I’m afraid there was a slip of the editorial finger when instead of saving the draft of next week’s piece I hit “publish”. It happens even to the … Continue reading →

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Gardening Good Taste…according to The Studio

Posted on 20/02/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Some people [including me] are lucky enough to have found a second career after retirement by turning their hobbies into work or at least almost full time voluntary activity.   One such was Charles Holme who, after a successful career  in textiles, … Continue reading →

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Edward Adveno Brooke and “The Gardens of England”

Posted on 14/04/2018 by The Gardens Trust

One of my favourite places to work and take students is the Lindley Library, part of the Royal Horticultural Society. It’s  interesting when taking groups there noticing how different things attract and appeal to different people. One book however always … Continue reading →

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Tiglath-Pileser I & the passion he shared with William Robinson

Posted on 11/10/2014 by The Gardens Trust

It’s not every day that an exotically multi-syllabled king of ancient Assyria gets mentioned in the context of Brtain’s historic parks and gardens.  But I was writing a  lecture about  early plant hunting and decided to start with evidence from antiquity when … Continue reading →

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