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MAKING AND RUNNING GREAT GARDENS, 1660-1900
RODERICK FLOUD
PROVOST, GRESHAM COLLEGE
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Wrest Park in 2000
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Long Water and pavilion, Wrest Park, 2010
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WREST PARK – SOUTH FRONT
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Wrest Park, 1704 from Britannia Illustrata
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Alnwick Castle gardens
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Olympic Park, Stratford, 2012
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Costs of great gardens
Garden Dates Sum at time Value today
Wrest Park 1685-1686 £260-0-9 £5,788,000
Wrest Park 1686-1701 £3348-19-7½ £49,830,000
Aire and Calder Navigation
1699-1701 c.£10,000 £148,800,000
Wrest Park restoration
2005-2015 £4,000,000
Alnwick Castle gardens
2000-2005 £42-50 million
Olympic Park 2006-2012 £1.822 billion
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Carlton House gardens
Plan of the Royal kitchen garden, Frogmore (1853)
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Waddesdon Manor
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Waddesdon Manor Constructing the garden, 1880s
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Constructing the Waddesdon garden, 1880s
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Tree-moving machine 18th century
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Costs of great gardens
Garden Dates Sum at time Value today
Wrest Park 1685-1686 £260-0-9 £5,788,000
Wrest Park 1686-1701 £3348-19-7½ £49,830,000
Wrest Park 2005-2015 £4,000,000
Alnwick 2000-2005 £42-50 million
Olympic Park 2006-2012 £1.822 billion
Carlton House (plants only)
1734-6 £1461-16-8 £20,900,000
Frogmore Royal Vegetable Garden
1841-1849 £65,628-16-8 £153,100,000
Waddesdon Manor 1874-1896 ESTIMATE £250,000,000
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BLENHEIM, STOWE AND STOURHEAD
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OSBORNE AND CRAGSIDE
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Long Water and pavilion, Wrest Park, 2010
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View of Frogmore gardens, 1853
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Greenhouses, 1870s
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The rockery, Waddesdon Manor, 1903
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ROUSHAM, STOWE AND HARTWELL
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Tourists at the Octagon Lake, Stowe, 1734-9, by Jacques Rigaud
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The “Great Bason” at Stowe, 1734-9, by Jacques Rigaud
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The staff at Downton Abbey
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Who is missing?
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Who is missing?
John Duell, Head Gardener, Wrest Park, early 18th century
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Waddesdon Manor with parterre, 2011
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A planting plan, 1799, for a flowerbed 24’ by 13’
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The gardener’s boy
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Budden’s grass shearing machine, 1832
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A. Parsons Head gardener, Danesbury Park, 1874
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Andrew Turnbull, Head Gardener, Bothwell Park, 1875
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The head gardener’s cottage Titsey Place
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Kitchen garden with head-gardener’s cottage, Titsey Place
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Glasshouses and gardener’s house, Frogmore, 1849
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Waddesdon Manor Garden staff, 1900
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Wrest Park gardeners, 1920
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1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971 1981
89176
106843
134938
163441
195721
232589
284125
251531
297531
198745
127620 131510
111130
Number of gardeners in Britain, 1851-1981
ADVERTISEMENTS BY GARDENERS in the Gardener’s Chronicle, 1870s
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