Signing up for Instagram wasn't on my to-do list for today, but it is now... (Cue random historic garden pic...)

Now that's what I call a #fernery...

Great post by @follyflaneuse on a favourite eye-catcher - the Mausoleum, @PentillieCastle. Though skates over the messy bits @tjcheritage heroicly endured in name of pinning down real story of Jimmy Tillie! thefollyflaneuse.com/pentillie-maus…

Hear, hear...

Looking forward to reading this book ‘Georgian Arcadia’ when it is finally published in March this year by friend Roger White. A good partner to this book. ‘The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden’ by Kate Feluś. Historic Landscapes

Last week the Prime Minster announced the Government will repeal the legal protections given to Victoria Tower Gardens, a public park by the Houses of Parliament. Read our statement here: thegardenstrust.org/the-gardens-tr…

The Mayor of London just quizzed Londoners online and they say their favourite part of London’s skyline is historic buildings, not state-of-the-art skyscrapers. This is from City Hall's 'Talk London' online community

The words ‘pavilion’ and ‘eminence’ wouldn’t be words you’d reach for if you were writing a modern-day children’s book. However, they do reflect the 18th-century obsession with landscape gardens!

💥 NEW! #SculptureoftheMonth chosen by s.e. gordon-salway "Jon Edgar captures both the nature and symbolism of water in his 2014 stone figure group 'Trisantonis' (the Roman name for the River Arun translates as ‘the trespasser’) created here with the public" RSPB Pulborough Brooks #westsussex

I know nothing of football, but this when the delightful, humble and down-to-earth Gary Lineker and I landed by small boat on a foreign shore. We made this documentary about his maternal grandfather at #Salerno in #WW2 . youtube.com/watch?v=IP7o2J…

Shining the spotlight on a new #exhibition at #GainsboroughsHouse - 'Gainsborough and the Legacy of Landscape - Masterpieces from Woburn Abbey' opens Gainsborough's House , #Suffolk on March 11th gainsborough.org/event/gainsbor… Art UK

Fortunately no one hurt but so sad to see historic Angel Hotel in #midhurst gutted by fire last night. Looks like serious damage to neighbouring listed buildings with important #Tudor wall painting. Historic England HE South East Pics of painting here:historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li…

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It is impossible to believe it has been five years to the day that we re-opened Denmans to the public. John Brooke’s had just died and it was in terrible shape. Read more here. denmans.org/denmans-garden…

Happy 303rd Birthday to Gilbert White! 🥳 Born on the 18th July 1720 in Selborne he would become one of the most influential naturalists in the world and the first ecologist.

Today would have been John Brookes’ 90th so we raise a glass of whisky. His fav, Famous Grouse, was poured w a splash when ‘the sun was over the yard arm’. Join us in a toast w/ a wee dram & perhaps, share it in a post. To John, our friend, mentor, & colleague. Happy birthday!