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26/06/2026

Out of office

Real Jardin Botánico - always a pleasure (shame the cafe amongst the flower pots has vanished, hopefully not permanently...
18/06/2026

Real Jardin Botánico - always a pleasure (shame the cafe amongst the flower pots has vanished, hopefully not permanently). Lovely chap on the ticket desk - mind you shop didn't have my book though the garden is in it...)

Corsham Court. Elizabethan bits, Lancelot Brown bath house, Nash dairy, Repton woodland and haha etc. My mother-in-law t...
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 💚

Villa Arconati, just a short hop from Milan, is rare example of a Baroque French garden in Italy. Under restoration, a m...
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

05/05/2026

Woohoo this Thursday! And yes Brown did flower gardens too.

A short course looking at some of the great gardens of a small area of northern Italy, between Varese and Verona. Starti...
28/04/2026

A short course looking at some of the great gardens of a small area of northern Italy, between Varese and Verona. Starting with a star of them all Villa Cicogna Mozzoni 💫 sign through link in bio

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25/04/2026

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Villa d'Este - a Renaissance survival - polychrome pebble mosaic nymphaeum with double water staircase, avenue of cypres...
25/04/2026

Villa d'Este - a Renaissance survival - polychrome pebble mosaic nymphaeum with double water staircase, avenue of cypresses and huge statue of Hercules and Lica(Fay for scale). The last photo is of the mock fortifications built for the young solider husband of ballet dancer Pelusa. Worried he would miss warfare she created a garden designed for mock battles and peopled it with military cadets to play war games with him.

Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta - has a 1585 nymphaeum, with water jokes and pebble mosaics. Large fountains, big sprays a...
24/04/2026

Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta - has a 1585 nymphaeum, with water jokes and pebble mosaics. Large fountains, big sprays and cheeky hidden jets, including a step that when your foot touches it shoots water up your legs. How much fun it would have been in your best wool and silk dress for a 16th century party I don't know.

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