Forgotten Gardens: Magosoaia

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania (Dor...

Guildhall Statues in the Garden

Images from the Museum of London website I’m in London several times a year but it was only on my last trip that I visited the Museum of Lon...

New M.A. Program in Garden History, University of Buckingham

Since Garden History programmes at both the University of Bristol (my alma mater) and Birkbeck, University of London fell victim to spending...

Views of Versailles by Alexandre Benois

Versailles, 1906 I'm wondering what the most drawn/etched/painted/photographed garden in the world might be, and I'm betting it'...

Portraits of dried leaves by Friends, 1816 (the year without a summer)

Julius Friedrich Ferdinand In the long winter of 1816, the year without even a summer, there were food riots in the UK and famines in China ...

George Orwell's Garden History: "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray"

 "Some years ago a friend took me to the little Berkshire church of which the celebrated Vicar of Bray was once the incumbent. (Actuall...

The Cabbage that is King: Brassica oleracae longata

Or, the curious case of the seven-foot tall cabbage, which brought two seedsellers and one Reverend Laycock of Hampshire into Westminster Co...