Posts Tagged ‘Birkenhead Park’
Joseph Paxton’s Birkenhead Park: When Liverpool Outshone Venice
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 5, 1847 My dear fellow gardeners, one cannot help but notice the unseemly enthusiasm with which the masses descended upon Birkenhead Park upon its grand opening. The Mercury reports—and I do assure…
Read MoreRemembering Birkenhead Park Superintendent and Garden Designer Edward Kemp
“The fluttering testimonials which he has received… will be sufficient to ensure… a large and liberal patronage.” August 6, 1847 On this day, Edward Kemp, the landscape gardener and architect at Birkenhead, placed an ad in the Liverpool Mercury. Edward offered his services as a gardener. [Edward Kemp] begs to offer his services to the Noblemen…
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