Double Digging Garden History
Women are all over garden history, so how come they're so hard to find?
Sandra Lawrence
I adore gardens and garden history, with a special focus on the 19th/early 20th centuries. I have also spent the last eight years recovering the lost archive of garden maverick Ellen Willmott.
Square Eyes on the World
When you can't get to the garden, the garden must come to you...
The Ghosts of Lavender Past
Some of garden history's most intriguing stories are about its quietest heroes
Found and Lost
The outsider world of a Greenwich bohemian
The Nicest Man in Horticulture
Remembering Matthew Biggs
Of Saints and Sinners and Secret Gardens
The silent desecration of our ancient orchards
Of Dogs’ Graves, Sham Grottoes and Plum Buns
Taking inspiration from a new garden and an old curmudgeon
Essay
It's My Sea Monster and I'll Cry if I Want To...
Unfashionable gardeners of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your dignity.
King Solomon's Vines
The swashbuckling gardening style of H. Rider Haggard
Essay
Difficult Garden History
The haunting ruins in a forgotten corner of one of Paris's most famous parks whisper of a dark past, but they are not unique.
Essay
Sepia Sleuthery
It's said a picture is worth a thousand words. If only we knew what they were...
Through the Garden Gate
What makes a favourite garden? Design? Planting? Magnificence? Or something else, almost entirely unrelated to the place itself?