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Garden Blog - Aug '24
16 Aug 24In the 1827 poem ‘August’, by the famed ‘Peasant Poet of Northamptonshire’, John Clare, he notes that: ‘The fields are all alive with sultry noise Of labour’s sounds, and insects’ busy joys.’ It’s not only insects and labourers out in the fields that are busy right now, gardeners are jolly active too.
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Owls On The Estate
30 Jul 24Deene Park welcomed back our Ecological Consultant Jo earlier in the year who carries out an annual check on our owl boxes.
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Garden Blog - Jul '24
19 Jul 24High summer, for gardeners, is most certainly a busy time of year.
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Garden Blog - Jun '24
14 Jun 24Towards the end of an illustrious career, in 1895, Frederic Leighton produced a work of art that would become the most famous and celebrated of his career.
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150 Years of Brudenell Family Weddings
24 May 24With our first Deene Park Wedding due to take place this weekend, and in the spirit of romance, we thought we’d have a look at the past 150 years of Brudenell family weddings, and how weddings and wedding traditions have changed from the Tudor period to the present day.
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Garden Blog - May '24
17 May 24The famous ‘Peasant Poet of Northamptonshire’, John Clare, in his set of lively pastoral poems titled ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’, published in 1824, begins his offering for May thus: “Come, Queen of Months!
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Garden Blog - Apr '24
19 Apr 24As popular playwright of yesteryear, William Shakespeare, put it, in Sonnet XCVIII, ‘April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.’ He wasn’t wrong.
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Garden Blog - Mar '24
15 Mar 24For our Roman overlords, March was the month of Mars, god of war, when the arrival of spring meant that their armies, always itching for a bust-up somewhere or other, could get back to fighting after a winter break.
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