Gertrude Jekyll fue una de las más grandes creadoras de paisajes de la historia de la jardinería inglesa. El diseño, los colores y las plantas en su mayor expresión....
The newly-crowned monarch has inherited several private palaces and already overlooks several castles, cottages and ancient ruins
Think boxwoods, aged brick pavers and espalier pear trees.
All my life I've been intrigued by charming garden gates. Perhaps it is my love of the "secret garden" type fairytales, but gates are a key part of what makes
The hustle and bustle of the city fades away upon entering this 1925 home sequestered in Peachtree Heights West
" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look across to the verdure is the most perfect refreshment." Jane Austen For a change of ...
It was ‘the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat’ that led to the demise of William III and as a consequence the rapid decline of Hampton Court Palace’s great formal gardens. The little gentleman in question had pushed up … Continue reading →
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Famed for its topiaries, Ladew Gardens in Maryland is both whimsical and formal, capturing its creator’s sense of fun.
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" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look across to the verdure is the most perfect refreshment." Jane Austen For a change of pace, I thought that I would show you two gardens a world away from the garden I last profiled. Though it seems to hail from a bygone era, this ivy covered house in the heart of Toronto actually dates from the late 1930's. A grand set of stone steps lead down to a long, narrow terrace, and at either end of the terrace a further set of stairs drop down to a sunken garden. The steps at one end of the long, narrow terrace. An eagle watches over the sunken garden. Located near the centre of the city, the garden's high walls just barely keep out the bustle of traffic on Avenue Road and the somewhat disconcerting noises of the car park next door. In sharp contrast to its urban surroundings, the sunken garden feels magically leafy and green. Though it isn't exactly my cup of tea, I think that the introduction of a piece of contemporary art (the twiggy bronze in the foreground) into such a traditional setting makes the space feel more edgy and current. I thought that this Bottlebrush Buckeye had the most marvellous foliage. Most of us will never be able to afford house or a garden like this, but the good news is, creating a quiet refuge of one's own is something that calls more for imagination than it does for money. This is the view from the cobblestone driveway. The next garden seems to have stepped from the pages of a novel by Jane Austen. A short stroll across an impeccable lawn brings us to the wrought iron gate at the entrance to a large, walled garden. Opposite the main house, is the elegant entrance to a guest house. The flowering vine is a climbing hydrangea. Just inside the gate of the walled garden. For some reason this garden puts me in mind of a summer party. I can imagine ripe strawberries and champagne as part of an elegant, but casual afternoon tea or perhaps a more grand affair with a big tent erected on the lawn, tables laid with crisp, white linen and fresh flowers, women in flirty summer dresses and men in light summer suits. The falls of these irises look like rich, purple velvet. Behind the irises are the tall, blue spikes of a Salvia and the soft, pink petals of a peony. Aren't these deep purple lupins stunning? As in the first garden we visited, a step of stairs lead from the terrace down to a sunken garden. A wide view of the sunken garden. There is something so restrained about this carefully clipped and manicured garden that it seems to provoke an opposite, slightly-out-of-control emotional response. Perhaps I have read to many Jane Austen novels or watched too many episodes of Downton Abbey, because I can easily envision the slightly inebriated guests at my imagined summer party might begin to feel a bit giddy or perhaps even a bit reckless as the party extends into the twilight hours of early evening. Here in the garden is the perfect backdrop for a stolen kiss or the less-than-proper rendezvous of two star-crossed lovers. Have a wonderful weekend!
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On my last trip to the Cotswolds, I chose to include Rousham House in Oxfordshire. While it doesn’t receive the kind of attention that Hidcote, Sissinghurst and Great Dixter do,…
It’s not every home that gets this much attention, but this one that was featured on the Newport Harbor Home Tour was hard not to love.
Landscape architect Quincy Hammond's gardens owe their graciousness to her grandfather's genteel Southern flowers, grown in a family nursery in Georgia whe
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Whilst many of the world’s post-war urban utopia experiments have failed miserably — 1960s Naples suburb of Scampìa, famed for its gloomy role in Gomorrah, a prime example — London’s effort to repopulate the war-ravaged […]
If you are as committed a garden aficionado as I am, Oak Spring garden is a mecca on your short list of stops. Last month, on April 19th, I had…
The romantic Sussex house belonging to Genevieve Harris - @mrstrufflepig on Instagram - is now on the market, and it is every bit as lovely as you’d expect. Take a look inside…
Dyrham House, Nr Bristol, Gloucestershire (by archidave)
The Wirtz Gardens: Part III is the third monograph capturing the elegant gardens of the acclaimed Belgian landscape architecture firm
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How a Maryland couple brought a World War II–era garden back to life—and then some
Old World Garden Plans As we are dreaming of the summer ahead I know our yard and garden budget won’t be much but I have some ideas of doing some beautiful fixes to bring improvement to our yard with Old world garden touches. One of the areas that I want to fix in our backyard […]
Explore the story behind of one of the Royal Family's favourite rural retreats, Highgrove house and gardens, home to His Majesty The King.
That's why I've scoured the internet to find the 80 best garden layout ideas for every size garden, and I'm excited to share them with you!
