Garden history
Double Digging Garden History
Women are all over garden history, so how come they're so hard to find?
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.
Garden history
Women are all over garden history, so how come they're so hard to find?
Through the Garden Gates
What makes a favourite garden? Design? Planting? Magnificence? Or something else, almost entirely unrelated to the place itself?
Garden history
My promised introduction to dipping a toe into the wonderful world of garden history. But which ology should we choose - and is it greedy to want them all?
Garden history
I'm used to digging around stately homes for 'grand' history, but a chance find in Dad's cellar made me think again about where we find the real stories behind our gardens.