Posts Tagged ‘Grave’
The Hardy Tree: Celebrating the English Writer Thomas Hardy’s Architectural History
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. June 2, 1840: the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born. Thomas Hardy, the Victorian realist whose novels and poems continue to captivate readers, was a product of provincial England, his imagination…
Read MoreTombstone for a Gardener: Remembering Edward Ward of Troston Hall
“In a secluded, unpretending graveyard, there is an epitaph to Edward Ward, aged 92, who died in 1804, who, it appears, was gardener at Troston Hall for upwards of seventy years…” September 5, 1882 On this day, The Ipswich Journal, out of Suffolk, England, included this little snippet in an article reviewing some of the…
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