Humphry Repton, Robbie Burns and red, red roses: Julia Grigg's Morrab Miscellany

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In Julia's stroll through the alphabet we reach R and meet garden designer Humphry Repton who was famed for his Red Books; and Scottish poet Robbie Burns known for comparing his love to a red, red rose.

Q for Quirky, Quiet Gardens – and Q!: Julia Grigg's Morrab Miscellany

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Reaching Q, Julia finds gardens that offer moments of quiet, celebrates a radio classic and recalls a poet and novelist who was known as ‘the greatest living Cornishman'.

P for Pruning, Perfume and Poetry: Julia Grigg’s Morrab Miscellany

15/08/202115/08/2021 Julia Grigg

Julia celebrates skillful pruning with an example close to Morrab Gardens, and captures the essence of summer in the perfume of pot pourri

Orto Botanico – a stroll through Botanical Gardens past and present: Julia Grigg’s Morrab Miscellany

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Recalling a visit to the Orto Botanico in Florence, Julia looks at the history of botanical gardens, and learns of their new role in combatting the many threats to future global food supplies from climate change and disease.

National Plant Collections and Night-Scented plants: Julia Grigg's Morrab Miscellany

15/07/202115/07/2021 Julia Grigg

Julia visits a local garden to see one of the National Collections, and chooses Night-Scented plants for her own house.

A Mixed bag for this Miscellany!: Julia Grigg's Morrab Miscellany

01/07/202115/08/2021 Julia Grigg

Julia Grigg celebrates Morrab's magnificent magnolias and the flower motifs of William Morris's designs, and visits the Garden Museum. But Julia starts this Miscellany with the meditative poetry of Andrew Marvel

Lilies in full bloom, growing in containers at the front of a Penzance house.

Lilies and Pleached Limes: Julia Grigg's Morrab Miscellany

15/06/202115/06/2021 Julia Grigg

Reaching L in her Morrab Miscellany, Julia Grigg enjoys the heady scent of lilies, explores the landscapes of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and admires the pleached limes at Sissinghurst.

William Kent – a pioneering garden designer with fresh and revolutionary ideas: Julia Grigg’s Morrab Miscellany

01/06/202101/06/2021 Julia Grigg

Garden designers over the centuries have left a lasting legacy in their ideas and in the gardens they created. In this Morrab Miscellany, Julia writes about William Kent who used his talent and experience as an artist to revolutionise garden design 300 years ago.

J for Joe Palmese, Gertrude Jekyll and Henry James: Julia Grigg’s Morrab Miscellany

15/05/202115/05/2021 Julia Grigg

In her Morrab Miscellany today, Julia Grigg writes about Morrab's devoted Head Gardener, an influential lady gardener from the past, and one of our greatest authors who claimed to be hopeless about his garden - but clearly loved it.

Fountain in the Islamic Paradise Garden of the Alcazaba of Almería, Spain.

Paradise Gardens – an inspiration for garden enthusiasts: Julia Grigg’s Morrab Miscellany

01/05/202101/05/2021 Julia Grigg

Gardens have long been a place for reflection and contemplation, for seeking inspiration. In her Morrab Miscellany, Julia Grigg considers classic examples of a tranquil space, the Paradise Gardens, from their origins in ancient Persia to their adoption throughout the Islamic world and beyond.

…the sub-tropical oasis in the heart of Penzance