APPRECIATING OLD GARDENS: HISTORY OR ROMANCE? with James Broadbent

Every garden should be a continuation of the house it surrounds, and where the dwelling is old and sleepy the garden too must be drowsy and lie under the spell of ages wrote Norah Lindsay in Country Life in 1931.

James Broadbent discusses this proposition.

JAMES BROADBENT is an eminent cultural historian whose working life has been devoted to historic buildings and gardens. He has a profound appreciation for plants which are appropriate historically and aesthetically, and which enhance the architectural elements.