Posts Tagged ‘English estates’
The Forbidden Garden by Ellen Herrick
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: The Forbidden Garden by Ellen Herrick This novel centers on a long-neglected walled garden on an English estate, a place resisted and misunderstood for generations. Sorrel Sparrow arrives not as a decorator, but as a gardener who listens. She reads soil and structure and senses the history woven…
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This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 8, 1698 On this day, our esteemed gardener and diarist, John Evelyn, ventured to Deptford to witness the lamentable state in which the Czar had left his beloved estate after a three-month…
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