david.marsh

Garden Historian &lecturer, Trustee of the Gardens Trust, Convenor of Garden History Seminar at Institute of Historical Research, owner of nice garden in France

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@TypeTweets @elaineamitchell Have you checked Gallica the database on the BnF? There may well be things there that they published or were involved in

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Have you seen the new Brexit stamps ?

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And an hour later - no sound & they've virtually disappeared - into a hole in the wall next to our spare bedroom [they obviously didn't like the colour schem in our room!] Here's hoping they move on soon...

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Working in the garden & heard a loud buzzing... a huge swarm of bees gathering around my open ebdroom window! Scary or what!

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Wondered why I had no commenst about my tweets earlier - I see they ended up as big blobs! First visitors here today got a shock when they saw our croc

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then ran hell for leather round the lakeside... but unfortunately....

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Wondered why there were only 2 people visiting the garden this morning - being FRench everyone else was watching a foreign wedding but this pm lots of nice comments from lots of nice people - so its all been worthwhile

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Not sure what was going on in Windsor but we had crowds at our summerhouse

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The new Gardens Trust blog launched today. Take a look https://t.co/mIgmSRP9sq and find out why Humphry Repton hated glass

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@OliverJWCox @ChawtonHouse You mean there are people out there who'd rather go to a wedding when they could hear you speak instead Oliver? Their loss!

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Getting ready for our first garden open day this year but its looking good! [well you can't see all the weeds from where you are!]

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@elaineamitchell @AdvollyR One small step at a time Elaine..... I've only just graduated to a smart phone!

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@AdvollyRHave finally succumbed to your wiles and joined Twitter! Not sure my phone or brain will cope but hey ho!

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@AdvollyR @elaineamitchell Who could resist! And besides I thought I'd try nad use this as a means of boosting my blog which I've now transferred to the GT