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Highlights from Issue 44 (September 2022) of Historic Gardens Review | | | Editorial | | By Gillian Mawrey. |
AnniversaryVisionary, Conservationist and Social Reformer | | On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jill Sinclair examines the legacy of the father of American landscape architecture. |
Optimist & Pessimist | |
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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. | Read More | |
| | 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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