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Giverny – Stepping into the Picture

Posted on October 11, 2014 by admin

In the last week or so, it has dawned on me that if there is such a thing as a garden visiting nerd, I have become one. I keep catching myself saying ‘when I visited this garden 20 years ago’ … Continue reading →

Posted in France, Gardens Archive | Tagged Claude Monet, Department Eure, France, Haute-Normandie, Paris

Versailles 2 – The Slumbering Giant

Posted on September 13, 2014 by admin
The Fountains of Apollo’s Chariot

It’s a strange sensation when you study the face of someone who’s fallen asleep. You sense that although they are physically with you, they are not really there. It reminds me of when I was a small child lifting my … Continue reading →

Posted in France, Gardens Archive | Tagged France, Ile de France, Le Notre, Louis XIV, Paris, The Musical Fountains Show at Versailles

Versailles 1 – The Grand Vision

Posted on September 7, 2014 by admin
The Water Parterre and West Facade of the Palace

How can a garden be so famous yet so little understood, be so vulgar and so magnificent at the same time, and be a symbol of overwhelming power yet so ravishingly intimate? Versailles somehow manages to be all of these … Continue reading →

Posted in France, Gardens Archive | Tagged France, Ile de France, Le Notre, Louis XIV, Paris

Promenade Plantee – Urban Blueprint for the 21st Century.

Posted on August 16, 2014 by admin
Grand Staircase and Ziggurat Beds

It’s one thing to have a brilliant idea, quite another to make it happen. I spend a lot a lot of time thinking, much of it of the ‘what if’ variety but one of my many failings is that most … Continue reading →

Posted in France, Gardens Archive | Tagged France, Hi-Line New York, La Coulee Verte, Paris, XII Arrondisement

Serre de la Madone – Lawrence Johnston’s Other Garden

Posted on March 23, 2014 by admin

Lawrence Johnston is famed for creating his great and influential garden at Hidcote, but I have always been curious to visit his other garden in the hills just outside Menton on the Cote d’Azur. How does it compare to Hidcote, … Continue reading →

Posted in France, Gardens Archive | Tagged Côte d'Azur, France, Hidcote, Menton

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