Tag Archives: Canal

The Bloedel Reserve

Posted on 31/10/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Doesn’t time fly? This time last year I was lucky enough to visit this beautiful house and its even more beautiful garden. Despite appearances it’s not an elegant little 18thc chateau in France but a 1930s building on an island … Continue reading →

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The Pagoda at Chanteloup

Posted on 29/02/2020 by The Gardens Trust

If I asked you to think of a pagoda in a European garden I suspect your automatic reaction would be to think of the one at Kew. But there is another, perhaps inspired by it, in an imposing position in … Continue reading →

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Eternal Wrest…

Posted on 18/10/2014 by The Gardens Trust

Wrest Park is a rarity. I’ve heard comments that the house looks a bit like a mundane French provincial station but, if so, it is a Grade 1 listed French provincial railway station, and mundane on the outside only. Inside … Continue reading →