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Polesden Lacey: The Munificence of the Beerage

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Karen Blaylock
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

Bodnant Garden – Suburbia Writ Large

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Karen Blaylock
The Laburnum Arch

The many underwhelming gardens I have visited find themselves banished to the back corners of my mind. Some gardens, like Bodnant, refuse to go there yet irritate me so much that I have to write about them. Bodnant has two … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Aberconway, National Trust, Wales, Welsh Gardens

Stourhead – The Genius of the Place

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Karen Blaylock
The Palladian Bridge, Lake and Pantheon

Someone interested in gardens and gardening would have found it difficult to avoid the television obsession with garden makeover programmes. As a starting point the garden team sends a family away for a couple of weeks. The garden is then … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Claude Lorrain, Henry Flitcroft, Henry Hoare, National Trust, Richard Colt Hoare, Somerset, West of England

West Green House – Swash-buckling Flair, Imagination and Opera.

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Karen Blaylock
The Walled Garden in Summer

I am a huge fan of garden author and broadcaster Marylynn Abbott, and her garden near Basingstoke is one of my favourites, a great garden upon which she has stamped her flamboyant personality. It is a breath of fresh air, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Hampshire, Lord Alistair McAlpine, Marylynn Abbott, National Trust, South-East England

Buscot – Quirky Delights and Disappointment

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Karen Blaylock
Water Garden 2

The camera can lie. Visiting gardens is not the straight-forward business it would seem to be, and I don’t like to think of the number of wasted days I have had travelling full of anticipation to see some second-rate garden … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Harold Peto, Lord Farringdon, National Trust, Oxfordshire

Studley Royal – A Thoroughly Modern Garden

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Karen Blaylock
The River Skel

I have always thought that there was something curiously contemporary about the Water Garden at Studley Royal. It seems to have more in common with modern British landscapes than with Le Notre’s work at Versailles or Chantilly built just a … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Charles Bridgeman, John Aislabie, Kim Wilkie, National Trust, Water Gardens, Yorkshire

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