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Tag Archives: Yorkshire

Newby Hall Gardens – A Picture With A Frame

Posted on September 14, 2018 by admin
View from the Long Borders towards the House

Newby Hall, near Ripon in North Yorkshire, has been described as ‘one of the most elegant houses in the country’ and that is a suitably fitting description. Attributed to Sir Christopher Wren and enlarged and improved by the prolific 18th … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged North Yorkshire, Northern England, Ripon, Robert Adam, Yorkshire

Chatsworth – Grandiloquent Ghosts…

Posted on August 24, 2018 by admin
Chatsworth House from the River Derwent

A few years ago, on a visit to Versailles, I was shocked by the restoration of the Courtyard façade on the approach from the town. Built in the late 17th century for Louis XIV, the over-use of gold screamed wealth … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Bakewell, Capability Brown, Derbyshire, Dukes of Devonshire, Joseph Paxton, The Peak District National Park, Yorkshire

Castle Howard – Breaking the Mould

Posted on June 2, 2014 by admin
The Mausoleum and New River Bridge

When I first saw the Howardian Hills, that area of outstanding natural beauty with its distant views of the blue horizon and big skies I thought this was landscape perfection. Not for me the scraggy mountains of the Lake District … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Earl of Carlisle, Hawksmoor, Kit-Cat Club, Vanburgh, Yorkshire

York Gate – A Perfect Small Garden

Posted on May 25, 2014 by admin
The Herb Garden and Summer House

It should all be so easy. Much of the attraction of places like Hidcote is that visitors can relate to the scale and planting of the Arts and Crafts ‘rooms’ and copy and transpose them into their own smaller gardens. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Leeds, Perennial, Robin Spencer, Sybil Spencer, Yorkshire

Studley Royal – A Thoroughly Modern Garden

Posted on May 17, 2014 by admin
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

Scampston Walled Garden – A Bit of a Curate’s Egg.

Posted on May 10, 2014 by admin
The Perennial Meadow

From time to time a new garden opens to the public that grabs the headlines, and back in 2003 Scampston Walled Garden certainly did that. It is a garden that I should have been to a long time ago, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Malton, New European Movement, Piet Oudolf, Sir Charles Legard, Yorkshire

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