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Scotney

Posted on 19/06/2021 by The Gardens Trust

I’m sure, like me, you’ve often coveted a garden that you’ve visited.  Maybe it’s a grand estate with sweeping vistas, or a  beautiful garden building that takes your eye  or perhaps   somewhere that has wonderful planting. What wouldn’t we … Continue reading →

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Jungling with Lady Charlotte…

Posted on 23/05/2020 by The Gardens Trust

A few years ago I spent a month in Burma, and one of the highlights of the trip was to see  the  National Botanic Gardens at Pyin Oo Lwin, way up in the hills near Mandalay.    It was rather … Continue reading →

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Belsay: “A self-contained Eden”

Posted on 25/11/2017 by The Gardens Trust

Belsay is an extraordinary match made in heaven, or rather in the green rolling hills of Northumberland.  The estate is most famous for its stunning but stark Grecian revival mansion finished just 200 years ago in 1817, but tucked away … Continue reading →

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Sussex by La Manche?

Posted on 01/07/2017 by The Gardens Trust

Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens are one of the great combos of design history.  Their names automically trip off the tongue in the same breath,  and they created a whole series of magificant houses and gardens all across the Britain. … Continue reading →

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The survival of Wentworth Castle

Posted on 14/01/2017 by The Gardens Trust

In 1817 the Rev. Lionel Berguer published “Trifles in Verse”, a collection of  [to put it politely] turgid amateur poetry. The first of these almost unreadable pieces  is dedicated to his friend Frederick Vernon Wentworth. It conjures up a gentle Arcadian … Continue reading →

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