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Behind the Privet Hedge

Michael Gilson

Gardens, landscape, history, culture, bit of journalism

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Amid the scrub and dereliction of a lost land lies an unmarked grave to an ideal of a better Britain

The Finsbury sports pavilion now a haven for graffiti artists.

You enter the site through a gap in the fence.

Plenty of others have come this way before.

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As the heat rises and the planet burns a timely lesson on the saving grace of the shade of trees

A firefighter tackles a wildfire in the Gironde, France

I’m 500 yards from the top of the hill. It seems both within touching distance and impossibly far away.

My shirt is dripping with sweat and my head is pounding but I push on.

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Meet Julius Drewe, the parvenu whose castle and garden took him as high as he could go

Julius Drewe by Charles Martin Hardie

Take a look at this painting. Here you see a man of distinction.

Weighed down with layers of the finest tweed, wearing best brogues, he is a country gentleman depicted at ease in the land.

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For artist and writer the garden on a windswept hill is a sanctuary - at least for a while

Front illustration of Four Hedges published by Little Toller Books

Ours is an ordinary garden. It is perched on a slope of the Chiltern Hills, exposed to every wind that blows. Its soil is chalk; its flower beds are pale grey. Dig into it...

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Keeping the garden dream alive: Meet the team fighting for beauty amid the turmoil all around

The Meanwhile Team

This week I’d like to introduce you to some new friends of mine.

There they are, all lined up in a beautiful courtyard garden in front of the slightly dilapidated former crisp factory that is their office and storage sp...

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