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Tag Archives: Water Gardens

Kyoto 4 – Ryoan-Ji Temple and Garden

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Karen Blaylock
Ryoan-ji Dry Garden

I think future generations will look back and say that mass tourism was the curse of the early 21st century. Whereas people of my parents’ generation were happy to make themselves a home, carrying out DIY, and tending tomatoes in … Continue reading →

Posted in Australasia, Gardens Archive, Japan | Tagged Dry Gardens, Gravel Gardens, Japan, Kyoto, Kyoyoshi Pond, Water Gardens

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

Longstock Water Garden – Seeing Waitrose in a New Light

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Karen Blaylock

Fortunately my organisational skill are scarily good, or at least that’s what my friends tell me, but it doesn’t help that I am mildly dyslexic, so dates and times I can find confusing. The number of times I have arrived … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Hampshire, John Spedan Lewis, Water Gardens

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