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Tag Archives: orangery
A Trip Advisor’s Guide to London Gardens……… in the 1690s
In the United Kingdom, garden visiting is an extremely popular occupation. In 2021 Kew had 1.25 million visitors and RHS Wisley nearly a million, while Westonbirt, Attingham and Edinburgh Botanic Gardens all also featured in top 20 visitor attractions in … Continue reading
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Tagged 17thc, citrus, garden visiting, garden writing, orangery, technology
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Gibside
I wonder what George would have made of the children picnicking or playing football on his lawn? He’d probably be more concerned that both his house and orangery lie in ruins and wonder how his wonderful estate came to such … Continue reading
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Tagged avenues, Banqueting House, chapel, conservation, garden buildings, Georgian, Jacobean, james Paine, National Trust, orangery, Stephen Switzer, walled garden
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The Eighth Wonder of the World?
Last week’s post was about Salomon de Caus’s career in England. It ended when James I’s daughter, Princess Elizabeth, who de Caus was tutoring, married Frederick, the Elector Palatine in 1613 and moved to Heidelberg. This might have been a … Continue reading
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Tagged de caus, Heidelburg, Hortus Palatinus, John Claudius Loudon, muses, orangery, parterre, pomona, statues, terraces, vertumnus
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Repton through the window…
Repton is well-known as our first landscape gardener but he was much more than that. It’s often overlooked that he was an architect too, [although with less obvious success and renown] and much of his writing is concerned with the … Continue reading
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Tagged ackermann, Bowood, conservatory, Dyrham, Gothic, Humphry Repton, landscape gardening, orangery, Plas Newydd, statues, treillage, trompe l'oeil, Woburn
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