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Lotusland – ‘The Enemy of the Average’

Posted on November 29, 2019 by admin
Dragon Trees – Dracaena circle

Lotusland is a garden that I have long wanted to visit; a botanical fantasy created by a wealthy failed opera singer with the added allure of very restricted opening times. Set high in the hills above Santa Barbara it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, USA | Tagged Botanical Gardens, Cactus Gardens, California, Desert Gardens, Frank Fuji, Ganna Walska, Los Angeles, United States

Getty Center, Los Angeles – A tale of Two Gardens

Posted on October 14, 2019 by admin
Museum from the Arrival Plaza

If you put a fine, thorough-bred Arab stallion and a cutesy, shaggy donkey together in the same pasture you can appreciate their respective characters and charms, but they are bound to be compared to the detriment of one or the … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, USA | Tagged California, J Paul Getty, Los Angeles, Richard Meier, Robert Irwin, United States, West Coast

Hauser & Wirth Durslade Farm, Somerset – Cutting Edge in the Back of Beyond

Posted on September 20, 2019 by admin
Oudolf Field and Radic Pavilion

I have always been a bit suspicious of the modern and contemporary art market. I can remember Alfred Taubman, the chairman of Sothebys, being imprisoned in the early 2000s for price-fixing, New York dealer Larry Gagosian being embroiled in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Iwan Wirth, Piet Oudolf, Somerset, Stourhead, Ursula Hauser, West of England

Bourton House Garden – Disconcerting Perfection

Posted on August 26, 2019 by admin
The Parterre

Bourton House is idyllic, a handsome Georgian house of fine, golden Cotswold stone set in three acres of stylish and exemplary gardens; a smallish garden to a family house with not a blade of grass out of place, and not … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged English Country Gardens, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds

Powis Castle Gardens – Hobbled by its History

Posted on August 16, 2019 by admin
Powis’s Exuberant Planting Against the Backdrop of the Castle

Powis is one of the most spectacular and best planted gardens of Britain, and so why has it been hobbled by its history? Most great gardens are built over the remains of previous gardens, but at Powis this is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Baroque Gardens, Edwardian gardens, Emes, Powys, The National Trust, Wales

Polesden Lacey: The Munificence of the Beerage

Posted on August 9, 2019 by admin
View from the South Lawn

Gardens are so often an expression of their owner’s character, so what would the garden be like of someone Cecil Beaton described as ‘a galumping, greedy, snobbish old toad’ and the Queen Mother somewhat more discreetly as ‘so shrewd, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged London Area, Mrs Greville, National Trust, Surrey

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