Michael Brown
The Historic Gardener

Historic and modern garden consultancy. Michael gives talks on historic gardening, garden history and Medieval pilgrimage, as well as other talks. He has written books about medieval gardens, medieval plants, medieval pilgrimage and ‘Death in the Garden’.

Michael Brown in costume for an event

Michael Brown, The Historic Gardener

michaelbmike@gmail.com
07500 464149

47 The Leys
Denton
Northampton
NN7 1DH

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The Historic Gardener

Website
www.medievalpilgrim.co.uk

 

Talks/tours

  • A Bouquet of Weeds

  • A History of Gardening in 100 Objects

  • A Medieval Christmas

  • A Rose by any other Name

  • Capability Brown. Hero or Hooligan?

  • Death in the Garden

  • Don’t Cast a Clout: East and Springtime Customs

  • Eat Your Greens! The Story of Vegetables in England

  • Flora and Pomona

  • Gardens in the Age of Chivalry

  • Gardens in the time of Jane Austen

  • Ghastly Gardening: Horticulture’s Horrible History

  • Gods in the Garden

  • Heritage Lost. The Menagerie and the Lost Grotto

  • In a Monastry Garden

  • Knots and Bowers. The Tudor Garden

  • Medieval Plants and their Uses

  • Pilgrimage - in search of Saints and Relics

  • Plants among the Ruins

  • Shakespeare’s Flowers

  • The Georgian Gardener

  • The Glory of the Garden

  • The Language of Flowers

  • The Pilgrimages of John Bennet of Raunds

  • The Road to Santiago

  • The Sorcerer’s Herbs

  • To Drive the Cold Winter Away

  • William Cowper and his Gardens

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