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Organisations
Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
Concerned with the protection, preservation, study and appreciation of Scottish buildings. Some 1,500 members throughout Scotland and beyond, with six regional groups organising local activities and carrying out casework. Two publications, the annual journal
Architectural Heritage and the twice-yearly
Magazine, and their own premises, providing offices and meeting rooms, the former Glasite Meeting House in the Edinburgh New Town.
Association of Garden Trusts
Sister organisation to the GHS covering England and Wales, currently representing 32 County Gardens Trusts actively engaged in conserving, researching, documenting and caring for parks, gardens and designed landscapes.
Australian Garden History Society
A not-for-profit organisation that aims to promote interest in cultural landscapes and historic gardens and to encourage their conservation as a component of Australia's heritage. Activities include annual national conferences; a bi-monthly journal and other occasional publications; and lectures garden visits and other events organised through the state branches.
California Garden and Landscape History Society
A private, non-profit organiszation dedicated to the celebration of the beauty, wealth, and diversity of California gardens and landscapes.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Established by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commission's duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two World Wars, to build memorials to those who have no known grave and to keep records and registers, including, after the Second World War, a record of the Civilian War Dead.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Cultural Landscape Foundation is the only not-for-profit foundation in America dedicated to increasing the public’s awareness of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of cultural landscapes. Through education, technical assistance, and outreach, the Cultural Landscape Foundation broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide in hopes of saving our priceless heritage for future generations.
Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz
As a private initiative the DSD (German Foundation for Monument Protection) has set itself two tasks: to preserve endangered cultural monuments and to promote the idea of monument care and preservation aiming to win over the assistance and engagement of as many people as possible. Publishes a magazine, Monumente.
English Heritage
UK Government-funded organisation attempting the sometimes thankless task of conserving England's architectural and landscape heritage. They publish the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
European Garden Heritage Network
German-led project bringing together nine partners from Germany, France and the UK to promote European gardens and parks as a cultural asset for regional development and as a common heritage feature in NWE.
The Folly Fellowship
Not sure why this delightful bunch weren't here before, but they are now, with a spanking new site, giving information about the fellowship.
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The Garden Club of America
A national organization of clubs across the USA with more than 15,000 members. Founded in 1913. Education in fields of of horticulture, conservation, historic preservation and civic planning is a prime objective. Educational scholarships offered, mostly based in the US.
The Geffrye Museum
The Geffrye Museum is one of London’s best-loved museums. It shows the changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day.Geffrye is also known for its strong focus on garden history with our period garden rooms and herb garden in addition to garden-themed activities for children both at the museum and through our online kids' zone.
The Georgian Group
Charity dedicated to preserving Britain's Georgian buildings and gardens.
Giardini e Paesaggio
Italian language website dedicated to the promotion of landscape architecture and its related diciplines, notably the historic landscape, in both private and public ownership.
GreenSpace incorporating the Urban Parks Network
A not-for-profit organisation set up to help those committed to the planning, design, management and use of public parks and open spaces.
Growing Matters Garden Project
UK garden project and web community, offering plants, garden furniture, arts, crafts, gifts, dried flowers, gardening tips and advice. Also a Horticultural Therapy Project providing voluntary work for people with mental health needs.
Heritage Ireland
Ireland's Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government aims to conserve cultural treasures of the past and present for the enjoyment and appreciation of the people of Ireland and the country's many visitors.
Heritage Link
Bringing people together who care about our heritage to formulate policy, influence opinion and achieve change on issues of common concern; through undertaking research, gathering data, marshalling arguments and deploying all of these through intelligent lobbying where they are likely to have most impact. A hub through which information is shared between members.
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Historic Gardens Foundation
A non-profit-making organisation set up in 1995 to create links between everyone concerned with the preservation, restoration and management of historic parks and gardens. In addition it hosts an educational programme, journal and a biennial historic plant symposium.
Institute for Garden and Landscape History
The Institute has been established to promote the study and development of gardens, designed landscapes and parks by encouraging academic research, practical horticulture and related traditional skills. It aims to disseminate this knowledge for the benefit and education of the public and, in support of this objective, to preserve and maintain archives and collections. The Institute, which is a collaborative venture between the University of Bristol and Hestercombe Gardens Trust, was formally launched in September 2006 when Dr Timothy Mowl, Reader in Architecture and Garden History at Bristol, was appointed Director.
International Bee Research Association (IBRA) Bee Boles Register
The Register contains 1,370 records and over 1,100 images. Online searching is easy, and selected records and images can be viewed. In addition, a list of relevant publications is provided. The site will be of special value to anyone interested in garden history or vernacular buildings, and to local historians researching our beekeeping heritage. It could also be useful for school or college projects.
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Non-governmental organisation of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. Provides a forum for professional dialogue and a vehicle for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of information on conservation principles, techniques, and policies. In UK runs a Cultural Landscapes and Historic Gardens Committee.
Landscape Design Trust
To foster understanding and awareness of the landscape for the benefit of the environment and the community.
Landscape Institute
Professional body for landscape architects in UK. Extensive links page.
Mediterranean Garden Society
An international forum devoted to furthering knowledge and appreciation of plants and gardens suited to the Mediterranean climate regions of the world.
Museum of Garden History
Based in London, the museum is the dedicated to the history of gardens and gardening and enjoys close links to the GHS.
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National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies ( NADFAS)
A charity working towards the education and preservation of the decorative and fine arts through the work of its societies throughout the UK, Europe and Australia.
National Council for Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG)
The NCCPG seeks to conserve, document, promote and make available Britain and Ireland's rich biodiversity of garden plants for the benefit of everyone through horticulture, education and science.
National Trust
Independent, charitable organisation for the conservation of houses, gardens and landscape in England and Wales.
National Trust for Scotland
Custodian to some of Scotland's finest gardens, from the world-famous Inverewe and Crathes Castle Gardens to the intriguing "secret" gardens at Inveresk Lodge and Malleny Gardens, both near Edinburgh. The Trust gardens are open most of the year.
Professional Gardener's Guild
A society for Head Gardeners, Garden Managers and those others engaged in horticulture (such as Assistant Gardeners, Students, Botanists, consultants etc.) employed within Private Gardens and establishments run in a similar way.
Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales
Researches, records, advises and interprets terrestrial and maritime archaeological and historical sites, structures and landscapes, particularly those of national and local importance which are threatened with destruction.
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Royal Horticultural Society
Premier society for horticulture in the UK.
SAVE
Through press releases, lightning leaflets, reports, books and exhibitions, SAVE has championed the cause of decaying country houses, redundant churches and chapels, disused mills and warehouses, blighted streets and neighbourhoods, cottages and town halls, railway stations, hospitals, military buildings and asylums.
Saving Graves
A collaborative effort of cemetery preservation advocates working to increase public awareness and activism in preserving, protecting and restoring endangered and forgotten historic cemeteries worldwide.
Scottish Ironwork
This site is the world-wide focus celebrating the Scottish ironwork traditionand providing information for those interested in wrought and cast ironwork manufactured or found in Scotland. There is historical information, an online database, technical area and special features.
Society of Garden Designers
UK-based organisation injecting a sense of professionalism into a much maligned occupation.
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Thames Landscape Strategy
The Thames is one of the most important natural and cultural assets of London and one that we all care about. The Strategy, launched in 1994, is a 100-year blueprint for the River Thames in west London. It contains almost 200 projects to co-ordinate river interests ranging from nature conservation and historic landscapes to recreation and education.
Tree Treasures
This project aims to set up a website in each county listing the rare and unusual trees that can be found in around its towns and villages. Each county website would be linked to a national one.
Twentieth Century Society
Another of the amenity societies, the C20 Society is a specialised conservation society covering the period after 1914 (the limit of the scope of the Victorian Society, founded 20 years earlier), increasingly appreciated in the 1970s as understanding and awareness of 20th-century design developed.
Victorian Society
National amenity society responsible for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts. Founded in 1958 to fight the then widespread ignorance of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture. Among its 30 founder members were John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner.
Walled Kitchen Gardens Network
An informal group of national organisations and individual experts, who decided there was a need to link up and develop a more integrated approach to restoring walled gardens, so that they become sustainable.
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County Gardens Trusts
Association of Garden Trusts
Sister organisation to the GHS covering England and Wales, currently representing 32 County Gardens Trusts actively engaged in conserving, researching, documenting and caring for parks, gardens and designed landscapes. Their website includes a
full list of the County Gardens Trusts and their contact details.
Avon Gardens Trust
Bucks Gardens Trust
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust
Cheshire Gardens Trust
Cornwall Gardens Trust
Devon Gardens Trust
Dorset Gardens Trust
The Dorset Gardens Trust have recently relaunched their website.
(17 May 2007)
Essex Gardens Trust
Gloucestershire Gardens and Landscapes Trust
Hampshire Gardens Trust
Hertfordshire Gardens Trust
Kent Gardens Trust
London Parks and Gardens Trust
Norfolk Gardens Trust
Northamptonshire Gardens Trust
Shropshire Parks and Gardens Trust
Somerset Gardens Trust
Surrey Gardens Trust
Sussex Gardens Trust
Warwickshire Gardens Trust
Welsh Historic Gardens Trust
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Education and training - UK
Architectural Association
The AA Graduate School's Landscape Conservation and Change programme takes a progressive approach, centred around the choices to be made in resolving the dilemmas of a living record of past human achievements and associations that must also be the venue for fresh successes that overlay the old.
University of Bath - MSc/Diploma in the Conservation of Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes
The MSc / Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes, (which commences October 2007) together with the Department's complementary postgraduate programme in the Conservation of Historic Buildings, recognizes that historic buildings are inseparable from their context, whether these are urban, designed or natural landscapes or comprise semi-natural features.
Birkbeck College MA/PgDip Garden History, London
This programme will deepen your understanding of the study of garden history and further your awareness of the many factors that lie behind the creation and the perception of historic gardens. The subject of garden history is examined in itself and in relation to a wide spectrum of historical and cultural contexts.
Birkbeck College Certificate/Diploma Garden History
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, you will relate garden history to other disciplines such as history of art, literature, architecture and the history of ideas. There will also be some material on plantings. The Certificate covers the development of British gardens from the Middle Ages to c.1914, including influence from other countries. The Diploma continues the story to the present day. Please note, this is not a practical conservation course.
Birkbeck College Certificates,Diplomas and Short Courses Garden History
Bristol University MA in Garden History
The MA degree, which is now in its eighth year, is taught primarily by Tim Mowl, together with contributions from staff of the Department of History of Art and visiting lecturers in the field of Garden and Landscape History.The course aims to provide students with an informed knowledge of how gardens and designed landscapes may be understood as cultural artefacts, primarily through the study of British garden history. The focus is on an integrated approach to landscape and garden art, architecture and design in their cultural and social contexts.
Capel Manor College Certificate/Diploma Garden History, in conjuction with Birkbeck University
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, you will relate garden history to other disciplines such as history of art, literature, architecture and the history of ideas. There will also be some material on plantings. The Certificate covers the development of British gardens from the Middle Ages to c.1914, including influence from other countries. The Diploma continues the story to the present day. Please note, this is not a practical conservation course.
Institute of Horticulture
Offers a scholarship towards a year of study in fields related to horticulture, botany, landscape architecture and environmental studies. This programme is an exchange, sponsored jointly by the Martin McLaren Memorial Trust in the UK and by the Garden Club of America in the US, and administered in the UK by the Institute of Horticulture. It enables a British graduate to attend the first year of a master's course at an American university as the GCA's "Interchange Fellow". An American student spends a year working and studying at leading horticultural centres in the UK.
Ironbridge Institute, Birmingham University
Following on from the practical conservation workshops running currently over the summer, the Ironbridge Institute, is now offering 5 two day workshops coving Basic Concepts In Conservation, as well 5 two day workshops on Management and project design. All workshops can be taken individually as CPD at the cost of £170, alternatively workshops can be combined to achieve an MA or Post Graduate Diploma in Historic Environment Conservation.
University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education Certificate Programme in Garden History
A programme of core modules devised to offer a firm grounding in the methods and practice of Garden History and to explore its links with related disciplines such as Landscape History, Archaeology and Plant History. Core modules may be taken individually or as part of a longer, integrated programme of study.
University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education Diploma Programme in Garden History
Builds on the Certificate programme in Garden History and is designed to enable students to engage with current debates in the subject and to study specific themes or periods in some depth. Core modules may be taken individually or as part of a longer, integrated programme of study.
University of East Anglia MA in Landscape History
Explores in-depth documentary and archaeological approaches to the history of the English landscape. Specialist core modules cover the scientific investigation of past environments, the archaeology of the medieval landscape and post-medieval landscape history.
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Leeds School of Architecture, Garden Design, Urban Design
Landscape Architecture at Leeds has established a reputation as one of the leading programmes in Europe. They provide courses at pre-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. All undergraduate and postgraduate courses may be studied part-time or full-time. The range of courses includes garden design, landscape architecture and urban design.
Landscape and Heritage at Nottingham Trent
Degree course providing a route into a range of careers in the landscape and heritage industry, from heritage management, urban and open space design, to landscape design and the restoration of heritage gardens and landscapes
Pershore, Horticulture - Management and Design of Gardens
Modern horticulture is a very diverse industry incorporating the propagation, care, management and use of plants. Whether students would prefer getting their hands dirty or running a multi-million pound business, the career opportunities are equally diverse and challenging.
RHS Bursaries
The RHS offers a number of bursaries each year to assist horticulturists in financing specific projects, including overseas travel. Professional and student gardeners, serious amateur gardeners, botanists and related professions are all eligible to apply. Four application dates apply per year. For more details, write to The Secretary, RHS Bursaries Committee, Education Department, RHS Garden, Wisley, Woking GU23 6QB, telephone +44/01483 212380 or email
bursaries@rhs.org.uk
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University of Sheffield , Department of Landscape
Postgraduate courses include: Diploma in Landscape Architecture, MA/Diploma in Landscape Design, M.Arch Studies, Certificate in Landscape Studies and MA/Diploma in Landscape Management.
Yale in London
Yale undergraduates can choose to take a semester or a summer program at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, which is the sister institution of the Yale Center for British Art on Chapel Street. Courses carry Yale College credit, the academic staff at the Paul Mellon Centre hold Yale Faculty positions, and you do not have to apply for a Junior term abroad to participate in Yale-in-London, since it is part of Yale.
University of York, Department of Archaeology
MA in Conservation Studies (Historic Buildings) and MA in Historic Landscape Studies
Writtle College
BSc (Hons) Garden Design, Restoration and Management
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Education and training - rest of world
Bard Graduate Centre
BGC has become, since its founding in 1993, the leading graduate institution in American higher education to offer advanced instruction in all aspects of the history of the decorative and applied arts, cultural and design history, and most recently, garden history and landscape studies.
European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools
Exist to foster and develop scholarship in landscape architecture throughout Europe by strengthening contacts and enriching the dialogue between members of Europe's landscape academic community and by representing the interests of this community within the wider European social and institutional context.
LE:NOTRE Project
The LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture is a three-year European Union-funded project aimed at strengthening co-operation between universities and higher education institutions involved in teaching and research in landscape architecture.
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Gardens open schemes and links
Australian Open Garden Scheme
Links to individual gardens by state including Australian Botanic Gardens and national and international organisations.
Notes on Chinese Gardens
Pictures and text resulting from a Garden History Society tour to China.
Gardens of Argyll and Bute
Thanks to the efforts of Victorian and more recent plant hunters, many of them Scottish, huge numbers of seeds and plants came back to Britain to eager local landowners. They filled their glens and estates with the new discoveries, the plants thriving in the damp, acid soil which replicated conditions found in many other regions of the world.
Garden Conservancy
A national non-for-profit organization, based in the United States, dedicated to preserving exceptional American gardens and opening them for public education and enjoyment.
Historic Parks and Gardens of Wales
Links to many historic gardens in Wales.
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Japanese-style gardens open to the public in UK
Pretty much as it says; also links to other Japanese-style gardens by country.
National Gardens Scheme
With its 'yellow book, the National Gardens Scheme has been opening fine gardens to the public to raise money for charity for over 75 years.
New Zealand Gardens Trust
Established by New Zealand's only national horticultural body, the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, to develop a database and website of gardens endorsed by the Institute and to promote the interests and profile of member gardens, and the open garden sector in general.
Scotland's Garden Scheme
Easily searched site of National Gardens Scheme includes map search of more than half of Scotland's private gardens which open to the public on set days as part of the scheme.
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Gardens and nurseries
Alnwick
The Duchess of Northumberland continues to alter the gardens and park at Alnwick Castle. First there was the redesigned Nesfield Walled Garden with its water display and planting by Jacques and Peter Wirtz, and now the country's (world's?) biggest Tree House. Controversial, certainly; exciting, definitely. Follow the link to this exciting developing garden recreation.
Bernwode Plants
A specialist nursery with nearly 3,000 rare and traditional herbaceous plants, herbs, wildflowers, shrubs and fruit trees.They maintain lists of plants complete with their date of introduction, very useful when planting authentic period gardens.
Blair Castle
The Hercules Garden is some 250 years old, but became completely overgrown in the 20th century until restoration work started some years ago. Much of the hard work has been completed, but the restoration will continue well into the 21st century. The garden is named after a statue of Hercules which was originally set on the hill as a focus for the landscape to the east of the Castle.
Bressingham Gardens
The Bressingham Gardens website has a detailed description of the world famous gardens, Foggy Bottom and the Dell Garden, which are visited by more than 60,000 people every year. These are home for the National Collection of Miscanthus. The site offers visitors a wealth of information on the gardens, new developments, the Bloom family, other attractions and how to get to Bressingham. There's an easy-to-navigate map of the gardens.
Butterworth's Organic Nursery
Nursery in Ayrshire,specialising in research including 40 Scottish-raised and now largely forgotten varieties of fruit trees. First commercial organic fruit tree nursery in UK. All trees grown to organic standard since 1991.
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Capel Manor College Gardens
Capel Manor College, Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, Middlesex EN1 4RQ is set in thirty acres of richly planted and beautiful themed gardens, to inspire and indulge the senses, all surrounding a Georgian Manor House and Victorian Stables. Visitors can explore the Japanese Garden, Italianate Maze, Historical Gardens, Gardening Which? Trial Gardens, Woodland Walk, together with the popular Sunflower Street - seven front and back gardens designed by former students, and plus Kim Wildes’s Jungle Gym Garden. There is also a visitor centre with garden gift shop and occasional plant sales and Shows and events are held throughout the year many of which have a gardening and/or horticultural theme.
Chelsea Physic Garden
One of the oldest gardens in the UK, founded by the Society of Apothecaries in 1673 to promote the study of botany in relation to medicine, then known as the physic or healing arts. As the second oldest botanic garden in England it still fulfils the traditional functions of scientific research and plant conservation and undertakes to educate and inform as well as to provide the amenity of a walled secret garden in the heart of London.
Clissold Park
Find out all about Hackneys finest park, visit the animal park, play some tennis, or relax and enjoy the wildlife by the ponds The site is maintained by Clissold Park User Group
Chaumont Garden Festival, France
All summer long and still the most enjoyable International Gardens Festival.
The Eden Project
Founded by vice-president Tim Smit and planted by our former chairman, Dominic Cole, perhaps the most astonishing garden in the world.
Fanhams Hall
Eleven hectares of gardens around a Jacobean-style house, including 18th-century garden and Japanese garden, near Ware, Hertfordshire, UK.
Heligan
The famously 'lost' gardens that have become a showcase for garden restoration worldwide.
Heritage Seed Library
Aims to conserve and make available vegetable varieties that are not widely available, maintaining a collection, mainly of European varieties. Over the decades many varieties have been dropped from popular seed catalogues. For an annual subscription members receive six chosen packets and one 'lucky-dip' packet of heirloom vegetable seeds.
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Hestercombe Gardens, Taunton, Somerset
An exemplary restoration of an 18th-century pleasure ground and its Victorian and later Lutyens and Jekyll garden terraces.
Hill Close Gardens, Warwick
Detached town gardens, registered Grade II*, currently in course of restoration in Warwick.
Iford Manor, Wiltshire
Harold Peto's Italianate garden, visited on the GHS conference in 2004.
Kokopelli
Specialises in organically grown 'heirloom' seeds, the scheme originally started in France.
The Manor House, Upton Grey, Hampshire
One of the most perfectly restored Gertrude Jekyll gardens in existence. A living museum of Jekyll plants and design.
Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum, Coggeshall, Essex
Marks Hall is a Country Estate located in Essex, which features an Arboretum, Lakeside Gardens and Woodland Walks. The Visitor Centre provides a welcome retreat to weary walkers, offering a Tea room and Gift shop.
Monticello: the Grounds and Gardens
Thomas Jefferson's garden, restored and an object of contemporary study. The gardens at Monticello were a botanic garden, an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. At Monticello, Jefferson cultivated over 250 vegetable varieties in his 1,000-foot-long garden terrace and 170 fruit varieties in the eight-acre fruit garden, designed romantic grottoes, garden temples, and ornamental groves, and took visitors on rambling surveys of his favorite "pet trees".
Nantwich Walled Garden Society
The official website of the Nantwich Walled Garden Society: a local group fighting to properly restore the wall and develop the garden. The NWGS is hoping the site can be restored to its former glory and open to the public.
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National Botanic Garden of Wales
The newest national botanical garden in the UK.
Painshill Park
The GHS has enjoyed a long and happy relationship with Painshill Landscape Park, nr Cobham. It is one of the 18th centurys great landscape parks. Here history, art and landscape design come together spectacularly.
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, the National Botanic Gardens of Scotland, or simply "The Botanics", this site is a gateway to science, horticulture, education and exhibition programmes, and much much more.
Royal Botanic Garden Kew
On two sites, at Kew in London (Surrey) and Wakehurst Place in West Sussex, it's one of the world's foremost Botanic gardens and historic gardens.
The Royal Parks
Millions of Londoners and tourists visit the eight Royal Parks for free each year. The 5,000 acres of historic parkland provide unparalleled opportunities for enjoyment, exploration and healthy living in the heart of the capital.
St James Cemetery, Liverpool
A description of St James Cemetery, Liverpool. From its beginnings as a 17th-century stone quarry, to the present day.
Stowe, Buckinghamshire
The landscape garden where 'Capability' Brown served his early years as a gardener. The house is a private school and the gardens are owned by the National Trust. John Tatter's website is a good introduction.
Sulgrave Manor.
A hidden gem among historic houses, Sulgrave Manor is a superb example of a modest manor house of Shakespeare’s time and was home to the ancestors of George Washington.The gardens were designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in the 1920s.
Thomas Etty Esq
Supplier of Heritage Seeds and Bulbs for the Period Garden.
Trentham Park and Gardens
One of the most exciting current restorations of a 'lost' garden, the home of the Dukes of Sutherland over many centuries is coming back to life. A new planting layout has been designed by Tom Stuart-Smith and Piet Oudolf and overseen by Michael Walker (late of
Waddesdon Manor) to fit into Barry's fabulous Italianate parterre and Brown's surrounding historic parkland.
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Resources and other links
American Society of Landscape Architects
Very useful page of links to all aspects of landscape design in the USA .
Book sellers
The Kew website has a good list of booksellers and publishers specialising in botany and horticulture, worldwide. Its list is based on catalogues received and does not include the many helpful local and general booksellers who can be traced in trade directories or through internet searches.
BuildingConservation.com
The online guide to specialist products and services for the conservation and repair of historic buildings and their surroundings in the UK, with details of events, courses, useful contacts, and a variety of articles by specialists on key subjects
Directory of Botanists, Plantsmen etc
A useful directory of “botanists, plantsmen, landscapers, gardeners and writers of note” compiled by Sisley Garden Tours. There are also
garden descriptions.
English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Since the 1980s, there has been a national record of the historic parks and gardens which make such a rich and varied contribution to our landscape. This record, known as the
Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England and now containing nearly 1,450 sites, was established, and is maintained by, English Heritage.
Garden Digest
Quotations, poetry, and history for gardeners and lovers of the ' Green Way '.
Garden Visit and Travel Guide
Guide to gardens open to the public in the UK, Europe and America , with information on tour companies and a history of garden design, with reading lists.
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GardenLinks
The GardenLinks Directory presents hundreds of categorised links to UK gardening and gardens online.
Gardens of the Mughal Empire
An on-line guided tour of Mughal gardens created between 1526 and 1858. Provided by the Smithsonian Institution.
Gardens without Limits
This project aims to present a broad spectrum of gardens to visitors from near and far. Gardens in France, Germany and Luxembourg, gardens with tradition, future-oriented gardens, small gardens and expansive parks.
Historic American Landscapes Survey
A permanent federal program charged with recording historic landscapes in the United States and its territories. Historic landscapes vary in size from small gardens to several thousand-acre national parks. In character they range from designed to vernacular, rural to urban, and agricultural to industrial spaces.
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Information about Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), 19th-century British botanist. With background material on the history of botany.
Institute of Historical Research
Various online and other resources for investigating history in the UK.
Japanese Gardens database
An excellent compilation of information about gardens in Japan , with links to other Japanese-style gardens throughout the world.
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Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and America; her influence on garden design has been pervasive to this day. She spent most of her life in Surrey, latterly at Munstead Wood, Godalming. She ran a garden centre there and bred many new plants. Some of her gardens can be visited. Devoted to all things Jekyll.
London Parks Discovery Project
Why are parks important? What did people use parks for in the past? Which parks are special and why? Why do you use a park today? How did a park become a park? Want to find out more about London parks? Fun, educational, curriculum-based activities for use in the classroom, the home and the park.
Land and Landscape Links
A massive alphabetical directory to all websites relating to Landscape and Gardens. Mostly UK. Invaluable. Everything from the National Farmers Union to the Royal Parks!
Landscape Information Hub
What it says it is. Fifty per cent UK specific. Links to many aspects including Historic Gardens, Modern Gardens, Parks. Information on Planning, A London Landscape Guide, Ecology, Community, Greenways, Minerals and Construction. Could be aimed at Landscape Architects but in-depth and far-ranging garden subjects.
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National Museum of Gardens, US
Proposal for the creation of a new and unique garden experience. The objective is to develop an outdoor destination of great beauty and interest, one that celebrates man's ability to shape, and be shaped by the natural world. The National Museum of Gardens will be a center of learning and enjoyment like no other, in size, scope or stature.
National Trust for Scotland Holidays
A significant part of the Trust's income comes through its ownership and management of nearly 70 holiday cottages, castles and lighthouses throughout the most glorious parts of Scotland, and revenue made from each holiday property goes directly back into the valuable conservation work done at that estate.
Plant Cultures
From cotton to curry, Britain and Asia have been exchanging ideas, people and plants for over 400 years. Learn more through pictures and stories from Plant Cultures. Pictures and stories spanning the centuries.
The Pulham Legacy: Pulhamite
Celebrating all aspects of the career and works of James Pulham and Son, eminent landscape gardeners of the 19th and early 20th centuries, now most widely remembered for the spectacular (Pulhamite) rock gardens they created in many country estates around Britain .
The Royal Historical Society bibliography
Hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present. Over 370,000 entries, including articles in journals and collective volumes, and data from Irish History Online and from London 's Past Online. Search by author, publication details, subject or period covered. No need to subscribe.
UK Historic Parks and Gardens Database
The growing database of information about historic parks and gardens in the United Kingdom.
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Libraries and archives
Archives of American Gardens
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution's Horticulture Services Division, the AAG offers landscape designers, historians, preservationists, and garden enthusiasts access to a collection of approximately 60,000 photographic images and records that document historic and contemporary gardens throughout the United States. Representative images are available
online
British Library
The BL needs little introduction and is one of the greatest libraries in the world. In Spring 2005 it held a
Writer in the Garden Exhibition, and the library also offers the possibility of
adopting a rare gardening book.
Dumbarton Oaks
The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is housed in a 19th-century Federal-style house built on the crest of a wooded valley in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. The gardens were designed by the noted landscape gardener Beatrix Jones Farrand and are open to the public. The Landscape wing of Harvard University. They publish the
History of Landscape Architecture (Colloquium Series).
Libraries and Archives Research Guide Online ~ London (LARGO)
A directory that provides links to some of the most frequently used research libraries and archives in London.
National Archives of Scotland
Based in Edinburgh, the NAS holds records from the 12th to the 21st centuries, touching on virtually every aspect of Scottish life.
National Monuments Record of Scotland Database
Using CANMORE you can access to the database of the National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS). This contains details of many thousands of archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites in Scotland together with an index to the drawings, manuscripts and photographs in the Collections of the NMRS. You can search by location, by type or by keyword.
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
An educational charity established to promote and support the study of British history of art and architecture. Situated in Bloomsbury, central London, it serves as a research centre for scholars, housing a reference library and photographic archive. It is the sister institution to the Yale Center for British Art.
Royal Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
The RCAHMW carries out surveys, maintains an archive, library and national database (NMRW), supplies archaeological information to the Ordnance Survey for mapping purposes, and publishes information about ancient, historical and maritime sites, structures and landscapes.
The Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library
All RHS libraries are part of the Lindley Library, the world's finest horticultural library. The largest and best-known branch is in London, but the Library at Wisley (which comprises a staff library and a library open to all garden visitors) and the Garden Libraries at each of the RHS gardens are also an important part of the Lindley Library.
SCRAN
A developing archive of material about Scottish culture and history. Includes resources about gardens in Scotland. Sadly now largely a subscription service.
'Saucy Gardens' - Guardian article
The 'passionate truth' behind some of Britain's most famous landscaped gardens.
Scottish Archive Network
Provides a range of electronic services including a Knowledge Base of Frequently Asked Questions on Scottish history, together with exhibitions, publications, discussion groups. Also a computerised index to the wills of Scots from 1500 to 1875, and links to digital images of the wills, thus opening up a vast historical resource.
Scottish National Map Library
The Map Library of the National Library of Scotland has the largest map collection in Scotland and one of the top ten largest in the world, with over 1.6 million sheet maps, 15,000 atlases, and around 100,000 maps on microfilm. Also gazetteers, cartographic reference books and periodicals, maps on CD-ROM and map ephemera. The Library's collections cover all parts of the world, through some 700 years, from medieval manuscript maps to current digital mapping.
Surrey History Centre
Probably the UK's biggest collection of manuscripts and plans relating to gardener and plantswoman, Gertrude Jekyll. The Centre also holds an extensive range of books relating to Gertrude Jekyll and garden history.
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Magazines and journals
English Garden Magazine
Overflowing with lovely photographs of Britain's prettiest gardens, seasonal planting tips, design ideas, expert practical guides.
Garden Blethers
Short articles of an anecdotal, unusual and gardening kind.
Gardens Illustrated
Highly respected international magazine, read in over 70 countries worldwide. Aimed at the 'discerning gardener', it is a glossy, beautifully designed publication that has won widespread acclaim for its superb photography and high standards of journalism.
Die Gartenkunst
German language journal of garden history. Includes a bibliography of German language publications.
Historic Gardens Review
The voice of historic parks and gardens worldwide, and published three times a year by the Historic Gardens Foundation. The print version is sent to all Members of the Foundation.
History Scotland
Scotland's bi-monthly illustrated history and archaeology magazine.
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Hortus
A privately published quarterly journal which addresses itself to intelligent and lively-minded gardeners throughout the English-speaking world.
Monumente
German magazine featuring architectural treasures small and large, combined with reports on issues currently affecting monument care and preservation in Germany. English version website.
New Arcadian Journal
Always thought-provoking, issues engaged are both historical and contemporary, and are concerned with the "Meaning" with which "Place" is imbued.
New Arcadian projects investigate the design of such Arcadian and Utopian environments as landscape gardens and model communities, and explore landscapes alleged to be "wild".
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
formerly the
Journal of Garden History, a quarterly journal covering aspects of garden history and edited by John Dixon Hunt. Early issues not to be confused with our own
Garden History (but often are).
TOPOS
Specialist journal on design aspects of landscape architecture. Four times a year it presents the most exciting private gardens, parks, plazas and various open space projects in Europe. Published in English and German.
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