Monthly garden update: OctoberAs the nights draw in and the leaves fall from the trees, Garden Manager Andrew discusses autumnal challenges."O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste [...]
Monthly garden update: September Garden Manager Andrew Bentley tells us about the latest garden happenings as we come to the end of September. “Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to [...]
Monthly garden update: August As Autumn begins in earnest, Garden Manager Andrew Bentley reflects on the end of summer Generally in the gardening world August is a ‘quiet’ month. There's a lull from frantic activity as plants (including weeds!) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]