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We have the following reviews in this section:
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VILLA THURET SCULPTURES IN THE GARDEN 2023
Reviewed by ANDRE BEAUMONT
GARD0006/0718 click here for:
JARDIN THURET
Reviewed by ANDRE BEAUMONT
GARD0005/0717 click here for:
PARC EXFLORA
Reviewed by ANDRE BEAUMONT
GARD0004/0417 click here for:
THE GARDENS OF AUDLEY END
Reviewed by ANDRE BEAUMONT
GARD0003/0217 click here for:
e-LUMINATE FESTIVAL 2017
Reviewed by ANDRE BEAUMONT
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME
Reviewed by DAVE FRANKLIN
GARD0001/0622 click here for:
VILLA CASTELLA, FLORENCE
Reviewed by JOHN WOOLLARD
Kenwood House, Hampstead with its Orangery on the left, viewed from the 'Capability' Brown garden
The Orangery at Kensington Palace. In 1984 Ronald Reagan landed in his helicopter on the lawn, greeted by Margaret Thatcher, on his way to the economic summit
Kensington Palace
These are Xavier sculptures (with sculptors you discover them as you go along), c.2016:
The gardener with a watering can with his cannonball head, Napoleonic hat, starfish heart and dog's collar is from a less creativity-suppressed decade. Will 2026 be the apogee year of creativity suppression or will it be a dreadful decade?
The gardener of the night pays clear tribute to Miró's La déesse de la mer near which it currently stands on the terrace of the Picasso Museum, Antibes
The night watchman is almost a Nightingale figure. We need one of him in a decade choked by state sponsored hoax narratives, starting with the one in 2020 that Covid-19 was spread by physical droplets, meaning people avoided one another outdoors where it was almost impossible to catch it