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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