Examining the possible involvement of Repton in the landscape of Knepp Castle ? And of course, the case against . . . To quote the website of parksandgardens.org “The pleasure grounds which were possibly designed by Humphry Repton” This record was created on the 27/07/2007 – but by whom ? And ‘possibly’ ? What did…
I am reading around the subject of Chinese garden history and am struck by the use of calligraphy in their gardens. Poetry, calligraphy, and landscape painting were interchangeable arts and found their expression in garden making. A piece of calligraphy can be beautiful in its own right, but the words conveyed can bring another dimension…
Munstead Wood – a place of legend , existing on the edge of my imagination. It seemed hardly likely that it could be a 21st Century reality ? But, approaching through the deep lanes of West Sussex, overhung with trees, it was so exactly as Gertrude Jeykyll described in ‘Home and Garden’ that I began…
There is not a more exotic garden in Europe than Val Rahmeh. As you walk into the garden past the ancient palms you can be in no doubt of this. It is now the Jardin Botanique Exotique of the French Museum of National History but still, particularly around the house, has the feeling of a…
La Serre de la Madone is the garden made in the South of France by Lawrence Johnson of Hidcote fame. I knew of the existence of this garden many years ago and first visited when it was under restoration and little known, but I was happy to go and see it again. The setting is…
