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Michael Brown – The Historic Gardener
Historic and modern garden consultancy.Talks and displays of historic gardening from Romans to present day. Author of ‘Gardens in the Age of Chivalry’, 2022, (White Owl Books).
47 The Leys, Denton, NN7 1DH 07500 464149 michaelbmike@gmail.com
@tudorgardener www.historicgardener.co.uk
Talks/tours
(Please visit website for more details)
• Garden History, Gardens and Plants
• Easter and Springtime Customs (includes flowers and some music)
• To Drive the Cold Winter Away (includes some music)
• A Rose by Any Other Name
• Death in the Garden (also
available as a book)
• Gardens in the time of Jane
Austen
• Shakespeare’s Flowers (can be
given in full costume)
• A Bouquet of Weeds
• Capability Brown. Hero or
Hooligan?
• The Language of Flowers
• Heritage Lost.The Menagerie
and the Lost Grotto
• The Georgian Gardener
• A History of Gardening in 100
objects
• EatYour Greens!The story of
Vegetables in England
• Flora and Pomona
• In a Monastery Garden
• Knots and Bowers,The Tudor
Garden
• Many a Sundry Flower
• Gods in the Garden
• The Glory of the Garden • All in a Garden Green
• Early Gardening Methods • Making a Splash
• Ghastly Gardening –
Horticulture’s Horrible History • The Sorcerer’s Herbs
• Plants among the Ruins
• We Made a Medieval Garden • William Cowper and his
Gardens
• A Medieval Christmas
• Pilgrimage – In search of Saints
and Relics
• The Road to Santiago
• Food and Feast – Medieval Food
and Banquets • Courtly Love
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