Classical motifs and garden poetry in 18th century Oxfordshire Gardens Dr Alley Marie Jordan traces the lineage of the garden grotto and its connections to wider classical motifs in poetry and myth. Drawing on her PhD in classics, she speaks on the evocation of shells, fountains, grottoes and Venus at Blenheim, Rousham and elsewhere that...Read More
The discovery and celebration of Robert Marnock as a C19 garden designer is gaining momentum and the attached are a number of recent talks we now have links for. Claire de Carle and Trust Researchers have researched the three Buckinghamshire sites and produced a report and display about Marnock’s work at a cluster of...Read More