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The New Castle Garden Club started in February of 2008, and wants to exchange gardening tips, ideas and excitement. Members hope to learn from each other and guest speakers, and to visit fellow ...
The snow-dusted Gordon Castle walled garden, nestled in the Scottish Highlands, in January. As planned, everything grown in the garden is put to use, however decorative. Strawberries, plums, and ...
A garden makes an offbeat souvenir. In 1935, following a spring trip to Greece, the British poet and writer Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold Nicolson, a historian and diplomat, began ...
Twenty years ago today, the conflagration that swallowed Castle Garden, the Dorney Park dance hall, took with it a huge wooden dance floor, a treasure trove of old records and the place thousands ...
There are a good many people who have doubted the propriety of converting Castle Garden into a depot for Emigrants. There are two procedures by which such doubters may be converted--one is to ...
Blarney Castle's "Poison Garden" Cork Ireland — built in 1446 the castle still boasts its original "poison garden" which contains poisonous plants, including Wolfsbane, Mandrake, Ricin and Opium ...
The castle was built at the end of the 11th century by Roger de Montgomery, the Earl of Arundel. Nominations for the Historic Houses Garden of the Year Award close on 31 August.