Knot garden

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Weekend plans: made.

Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite artist who once lived there, two designers have created an enchanting garden based around the remains of an Elizabethan manor at Biddulph Old Hall in Staffordshire.

When I turned the page to this picture in my January 1938 Woman's Home Companion magazine I was entranced but thought it was just a painting by a Mr. Harrie Wood and surely not a real garden. I was wrong. This is just half of the knotted herb garden that belonged to a Mrs. R. M. Littlejohn in Southhampton, Long Island, and it was designed by John Dukinfield. One Google search led to another and I discovered it was at what is now 107 Great Plains Road in Southhampton, now named Westlawn. The…

easy and cool looking boxwood

Fig. 2 Parterre’s ( “meaning on the ground"- thanks Wikopedia! ) have not gone out.This is one of Rosemary Verey's and here's her plan for this garden.If you disregard her plant choices and translate the pattern in to succulents in yellow green, medium green and blue green in a raised bed--it just might work. To date raised beds around here look more like this: Herb gardens in every other gardening magazine have a parterre design-- and very nice ones, at that. A woven design is also called a…

A renaissance castle, built by a courtier of François I. The castle is unchanged since the sixteenth century and a lunette, on the website, shows a renai

Garden Spaces The Tom Gillies Hardy Fern Foundation Display Garden The Fern Garden is where foliage and texture prove their value in the garden. A combination of hardy ferns from around the world and fanciful plants create the feeling you have entered a miniature wonderland. There are ferns that are as small as three inches

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