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Issue 35 of Historic Gardens Review was published in February 2017.
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Editorial & News
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Gillian Mawrey, founder and editor of Historic Gardens Review, sets out the changes that are coming to the magazine and the newsletter.
She makes a plea for readers to recruit new subscribers so the magazine can remain viable for years to come. |
Anniversary
Legislating for Landscapes
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Phil Back demonstrates how a piece of 1960s legislation designed to fund and protect the Scottish countryside has helped historic gardens. |
Optimist & Pessimist
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In this section we bring you some good and bad news from around the world.
If you have news of developments to share, please do get in touch. |
Garden Reviews
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Gillian Mawrey reviews a trio of French gardens in this issue, and questions whether two of them will still exist in ten years’ time. |
Book Reviews
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Three wide-ranging studies of landscape architecture, an investigation into a botanical fraud, and a garden colouring book are among the titles reviewed here.
Click on the link below to read some of our recent reviews. |
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Ubiquity Brown?
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At the end of the celebrations for ‘Capability’ Brown’s tercentenary, John Dixon Hunt questions whether there is still more to be said about the great designer.
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Science and the Picturesque
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Dr Jenner was a gardener as well as a scientist. As Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall discovers, Jenner's Picturesque garden at The Chantry is almost intact. The house and garden in the small Gloucestershire town of Berkeley are now a museum celebrating Jenner's medical advances.
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Getting Away from Grandeur
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Danielle Westerhof shares her account of the careful restoration work that has been carried out at Kedleston in the English Midlands to bring a long-abandoned Hermitage back to life.
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Ornament and Utility
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Stuart Read introduces a rare survivor from Australia’s colonial past: the nursery at Camden Park, south-west of Sydney, which continues to cultivate early species and hybrids that might otherwise be lost.
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A Garden of the True North
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Links with the British Crown over 150 years have shaped Rideau Hall, which is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest country estates in Canada. Its history is told here by Mark Burleton.
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Submissions
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We welcome suggestions for articles for publication in the magazine. If you have a subject you think would interest our readers, please send a short (150 word) outline to the editor at office@historicgardens.org |
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