A list of posts from the Garden visitor
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B
- Babylonstoren – An Exemplary Productive Garden
- Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden – Playing with Space and Form
- Barcelona Pavilion – Less is Definitely More
- Beth Chatto’s Garden – Has it stopped evolving?
- Blenheim – Brown’s Masterpiece and a Cheeky Bit of Le Notre
- Bodnant Garden – Suburbia Writ Large
- Bourton House Garden – Disconcerting Perfection
- Bury Court – Piet Oudolf’s Courtyard Garden
- Buscot – Quirky Delights and Disappointment
C
- Castle Howard – Breaking the Mould
- Chantilly – Le Notre’s Water Mirrors
- Chatsworth – Grandiloquent Ghosts…
- Chiswick House and Gardens – the Transformative Effect of Lottery Largesse
- Cliveden – A Great Landscape not a Great Garden
- Coleton Fishacre – The D’Oyley Carte’s Coastal Garden
- Cottesbrooke – A Great Evolving Garden
- Cranborne Manor Garden – the Borrowed View
D
G
H
- Hampton Court Palace: The Privy Garden ‘The Little Gentleman in the Black Velvet Waistcoat’
- Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden – That Rare Thing a Sculpture Garden that Works
- Hatfield – Airbrushed out…….
- Hauser & Wirth Durslade Farm, Somerset – Cutting Edge in the Back of Beyond
- Hawkstone Park Follies – ‘The Awfulness of its Shades, the Horrors of the Precipices’.
- Hestercombe – Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, oh……….and Lutyens and Jekyll.
- Het Loo – Pastiche or Worthwhile Reconstruction?
- Hidcote – The Elusive Mr. Johnston and the Extraordinary Mrs. Lindsay.
- Holker Hall Cumbria – A Disconbobulated Garden
J
K
- Karl Foerster Garten – The Unfamiliar Pioneer
- Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park 1 – Serpentine Follies
- Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park 2 – A (Royal) Breath of Fresh Air…….
- Kew 1 – the Japanese Landscape
- Kew 2 – The Broadwalk Borders – Almost All is Forgiven
- Kew 3 – Arboretum – The Ancient and the Beautiful
- Kew 4 – Through The Seasons
- Kew 5 – The Temperate House: Restored to Glory
- Kiftsgate Court – Hidcote’s Little Kid Sister
- Kirstenbosch – An Indigenous Botanical Garden
- Kyoto 1 – Hakusasonou Stroll Garden
- Kyoto 2 – Ginkaku-Ji – The Silver Pavilion
- Kyoto 3 – Nishikawa House and the Small Traditional Japanese Garden
- Kyoto 4 – Ryoan-Ji Temple and Garden
- Kyoto 5 – Nanzen-ji Temple and Garden
- Kyoto 6 – Heian-ji shrine and Garden
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M
P
- Painshill – ‘Whimsical Theatricality’
- Painswick Rococo Garden – A Productive Whimsical Pleasure Garden
- Parc Andre Citroen – A Disaster on an Epic Scale
- Parc del Laberint d’Horta – Barcelona’s Other Great Park
- Parc des Buttes Chaumont – Dynamite and Picturesque Charm
- Park Guell – Gaudi’s Garden City
- Pensthorpe – A Holistic Blueprint for the Future
- Petworth – A Masterclass in Understatement
- Polesden Lacey: The Munificence of the Beerage
- Portland Japanese Garden – A World Renowned Masterpiece
- Portland – Lan Su – That Rare Thing, A Great Chinese Garden
- Portmeiron – A Visit to a Parallel World
- Powis Castle Gardens – Hobbled by its History
- Promenade Plantee – Urban Blueprint for the 21st Century.
- Prospect Cottage, Dungeness – Survival in a Hostile Environment
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S
- Sacro Bosco – The Park of Monsters
- Sanssouci, Potsdam, Berlin – an Agrarian Versailles
- Scampston Walled Garden – A Bit of a Curate’s Egg.
- Seattle 1 – The Japanese Garden
- Seattle 2 – Chihuly Garden and Glass
- Serre de la Madone – Lawrence Johnston’s Other Garden
- Sissinghurst – The National Trust at its Best
- Snowshill Manor – Intimate Eccentricty
- Stourhead – The Genius of the Place
- Stowe – The Corpse That Revived
- Studley Royal – A Thoroughly Modern Garden
- St James’s Park – Delighting Five Million Visitors a Year
T
- Thames Barrier Park – A Victim of Recession
- The Alcazar, Seville – That Exotic Fusion of Moorish and Christian Cultures.
- The National Botanic Garden of Wales – Welshness, Originality and Excellence
- The New York High Line: Re-Imagining The City
- The Trentham Estate – The Good Developer?
- Tokyo 1 – Hama-rikyu Gardens
- Tokyo 2 – Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens
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- Vann – Owner, Honesty Box and National Gardens Scheme
- Vaux le Vicomte – The Squirrel’s Great Legacy
- Vergelegen – Can a Garden be Unethical?
- Versailles 1 – The Grand Vision
- Versailles 2 – The Slumbering Giant
- Versailles 3 – Escape from Reality
- Villa Adriana – The Sad Ancestor of the European Garden
- Villa Aldobrandini – Water Theatre and Gentle Decay
- Villa del Balbianello – Clipped to Perfection
- Villa d’Este – A Gushing Gurgling, Crashing Murmuring Stupendous Work of Art
- Villa Lante – Vignola’s Perfect Concept and Italian Irritations
- Villa Savoye – The Making of Le Corbusier