Monthly Archives: February 2024

The Gardens Trust is working towards  publishing a book on Unforgettable Gardens and together with a few colleagues I’ve recently spent ages trying to decide which ones to include and why.  Our debates reminded me of a similar dilemma which … Continue reading →

This could be  a fairy tale story. A dashing young American millionaire buys a Moorish castle in a breathtaking position, from an ancient aristocratic Spanish family promising to restore it. Imagine the excitement when he announces he has found hidden … Continue reading →

This was supposed to be a really  easy post to write because there are lots of nice pictures and, I thought, a reasonably straightforward story to tell.  But it’s been anything but!    It follows  on from last week’s post … Continue reading →

One part of garden history as a discipline that sometimes gets overlooked is the history of landscape in its widest sense, so today  I’m turning my attention to the way that Europeans saw and recorded new landscapes when they started … Continue reading →