Tales from the garden: July
Monthly garden update: July As we head into August, Garden Manager Andrew Bentley reflects on the busy July we've had at Chawton House Library Now, I don’t intend to go all ‘Luvvie’ to you my dear readers but I must [...]
Tales from the garden: June
Monthly garden update: June Garden Manager Andrew Bentley tells us about the latest garden happenings as we come to the end of June. 'Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:–”Oh, how beautiful!” and [...]
Tales from the Garden: May
Garden Manager Andrew Bentley tells us about the exciting developments in the gardens, as the 'darling buds of May' leave Chawton House Library. Some moments later Pop took his glass of port to the kitchen door, staring out at [...]
Tales from the Garden: April
Monthly Garden Update: April In the latest instalment of our new monthly garden updates, Garden Manager Andrew Bentley tells us about the latest exciting developments in the gardens as spring comes to Chawton House Library. This Allium flower in the [...]
Tales from the Garden
Monthly Garden Update: March In the first of a new series of monthly garden updates, our Garden Manager, Andrew Bentley tells us about the latest exciting developments... We're now enjoying the flowering of the bulbs planted last Autumn [...]
Study Day 5 November – Experiencing the Transatlantic Garden
An afternoon of talks on representing and experiencing the garden in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. This event is organized by the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies in conjunction with the Sydney Intellectual History Network. It is free to attend, but [...]
Elizabeth Blackwell: New Herb Garden commemorates eighteenth-century herbalist
Our new herb garden, in a section of the Walled Garden here at Chawton House Library, was officially opened by Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, Mr Nigel Atkinson, on the 14th of July. It is a tribute to Elizabeth [...]
The Trainee Gardener: Rebecca Lloyd
Since April this year Rebecca has had the opportunity to train for two days per week in the beautiful gardens of Chawton House Library.
Small Fluffy Pests and the First Roses of Summer
The glorious gardens here at Chawton House Library are bursting into bloom just in time for Chawton Open Gardens this weekend!
The Stunning Sights and Smells of the CHL Gardens this May
Head Gardener Alan Bird writes about the wonderful sights and smells around the grounds this May.