The Garden Historians

18/09/2026

My morning walk with Gene (and a bag of oats for these lovelies - Gene's not their favourite but don't tell him).

14/09/2026

Kentwell Hall - moated Tudor buildings,topiary, the gardens are idiosyncratic, eccentric, unexpected (last two images show the old gazebo which houses the camera obscura - last image is of the garden through its lens).

09/09/2026

A favourite garden from a trip with my wonderful women - garden historians, garden designers, gardeners, one was Arthur Miller's editor (and Madonna) another worked for Ferrari. Years in we are now we are a little team. Get packing girls...

08/09/2026

31/08/2026

The award winning Horniman Grasslands Garden yesterday. Designed in partnership with Prof James Hitchmough and plantsman Neil Lucas, not just beautiful but cleverly links the outdoor space to the Horniman’s Gallery of anthropology by referencing indigenous people’s relationships to grassland landscapes.

06/08/2026

Sometimes you just want to shout 'look up' but you don't. Mr Heron watching the pond...

01/08/2026

Wowee! Gardens Arundel Castle 17th century inspired wonder by the Bannermans historical, playful, magical and bloody brilliant ⚡️

15/07/2026

The curators children at Birmingham Botanic Gardens 1908-9.

17/05/2026

Corsham Court. Elizabethan bits, Lancelot Brown bath house, Nash dairy, Repton woodland and haha etc. My mother-in-law told me, maybe fifteen years ago, I needed to come here (she taught in the house) she was right (she usually is). Heavenly 💚

06/05/2026

Villa Arconati, just a short hop from Milan, is rare example of a Baroque French garden in Italy. Under restoration, a massive task but each time I visit they have made progress. Coming up in this Friday's lecture and in