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Highlights from Issue 44 (September 2022) of Historic Gardens Review

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Editorial
	By Gillian Mawrey.

On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jill Sinclair examines the legacy of the father of American landscape architecture.

Each issue we bring you good and bad news from around the world. If you have news of international developments to share, do get in touch.

Flying Visits
	Robert Peel explores, with a group of historic garden enthusiasts, the stepped terraces, cascading water features, sculptures and botanic gardens of Montjuïc in Barcelona.

Gardens and Books from Around the World
	In this issue, the extended feature about the sad situation of historic gardens in Ukraine meant we did not have space for a garden review. However, you will find a selection of book reviews.
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Bombs versus Parks
	The Soviet Union destroyed much of Ukraine’s landscape heritage. As Oleksandra Pantiukhina writes, Putin’s Russia seems bent on destroying what remains.

In the Heart of Marrakech
	A great couturier made Majorelle famous but we owe its creation – and even the iconic blue paint – to a forgotten painter and his passion for the local culture. Marc Jeanson visits the site.

A Diva’s Delight
	Clare Gleeson brings us the history of a magical haven near Melbourne where the renowned soprano Dame Nellie Melba could relax with her family, away from the world’s great opera stages.

Down Where the Bayou Bends
	Susan House Wade introduces us to Texas philanthropist ‘Miss Ima’ Hogg whose garden featuring azaleas and camellias came to epitomise the Southern style.

Can Compost be Political?
	Clemens Alexander Wimmer demonstrates that the landscaper of the Nazi autobahns was also a pioneer of modern ecology.

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