Garden History image of the week...Kingsnorth Gardens, Folkestone in miniature

From the Science and Society Photographic Archives, originally published in the Daily Herald in the 1950s: ‘Mr and Mrs Grace of Kingsnorth G...

Thomas Wright, Arbours and Grottos

I've just walked back from the library with my latest treasure. One of the benefits of working for a university is the ability to get al...

Stanway

We had some car trouble and were late getting out to Stanway , so by the time we arrived there was no one in the courtyard and you never not...

On returning home

I always seem to pay a price for my vacations...the nanobattery encyclopedia article lies on my desk unfinished, the scanning electron micro...

Runnymede

I am back in London with friends, garden friends who take me nice places. Last visit we went to Runnymede, and I've been meaning to pos...

Cupid in the Garden

From the previously posted English Emblem Books project comes this selection from the Emblemata Amatoria of Philip Ayres (1638-1712) which...

Alexander Pope's Catalogue of Greens, 1713

By the eighteenth century, the English garden was tending towards the natural (though it was not yet a 'natural' we would recognize ...

Topiary: Martial Art?

In my latest fit of manuscript writing I came across an intriguing reference to early topiary forms being derived from sentinels. As castles...

The Elizabethan Snail Mount

The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post ) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by ...

Garden History Volunteers needed and the City of London's Images at Collage

For my London friends, from ParkBench London "The London Parks & Gardens Trust is looking for volunteers to expand the information ...

On Making Money out of a Rock - the Enstone Marvells of Thomas Bushell

Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDBLOG , posted recently about a Times article documenting the trend for London's nouveau riche to burrow und...

Friday Feature Garden - the walls of Sissinghurst

And when one thinks of garden rooms, one thinks of Sissinghurst. One of the great English gardens that I think of as the big S-es, the othe...