Tag Archives: water gardens

Bramham

Posted on 07/01/2023 by The Gardens Trust

I’ve always known that late 17th/ early 18thc gardens and landscapes have a special quality about them,  but a visit I made last month proved it beyond doubt.  So to get the New Year off to a flying start let … Continue reading →

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Fontainebleau

Posted on 01/10/2022 by The Gardens Trust

France is famous for its  grand gardens such as Versailles, Vaux le Vicomte and Fontainebleau  which  are the living proof of the superiority of man over nature and -only half in jest – of France and the French over everybody … Continue reading →

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The Garden at Lion Rock

Posted on 26/02/2022 by The Gardens Trust

Where is the oldest extant garden complex in the world?  To be honest I don’t know – let me know if you do – but today’s  post is about what must be one of the contenders for that title.   … Continue reading →

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More on Lyveden

Posted on 23/01/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post looked at the background to the building of Lyveden New Bield by Sir Thomas Tresham in the very last few years of Elizabeth I’s reign.  We began a tour of the garden and ended having reached the … Continue reading →

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Lyveden

Posted on 16/01/2021 by The Gardens Trust

We all know that houses and gardens are the product of their creators, sometimes almost inextricably so. But we also know that houses get altered, rebuilt or even demolished from time to time while gardens are even more ephemeral and … Continue reading →

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