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  • The Upton Grey Garden
    21 years ago this garden in Upton Grey, was nothing more than an unkempt jungle. What we didnt realise when we bought the property was that underneath this jungle were the foundations of a very special garden, indeed one that Gertrude Jekyll had desi ...
    http://website.lineone.net/

  • The Gardens of Tuscany
    For centuries the Tuscan landscape has exerted a powerful hold on the imaginations of Italian city dwellers and foreign visitors with its human scale, and the merging of vineyards and olive groves into gardens and then into the villas themselves. Wit ...
    http://www.gardens-of-tuscany.net/

  • The Pavilion Gardens
    Virginia has a rich garden history. Gardening was a necessary activity providing food for the family and pleasurable settings for study and relaxation. While the smaller gardens of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries did not survive, the James R ...
    http://www.virginia.edu/

  • Maplelawn Historic Garden
    History, photographs, links, tour and Friends information for one of the oldest and best preserved walled gardens in Canada. Open to the public spring through fall. English and French versions. ...
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  • The Life and Art of a Garden Designer
    In the years between the wars Norah Bourke Lindsay 18731948 was a major influence on the course of garden design and planting. She developed her skills in her own magical garden at the Manor House, Sutton Courtenay in Oxfordshire, widely regarded as ...
    http://www.norahlindsay.com/

  • Desert de Rets
    Guided tours of the Desert de Retz have been suspended until further notice. If you are interested in the Desert de Retz and would like additional information, contact the owners, JeanMarc HeftlerLouiche and Olivier Choppin de Janvry. In addition, HI ...
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  • The Ascog Hall Victorian Fernery and Gardens
    Ascog Hall was built in 1844 by the Rev. James Monteith of Dalkeith who moved to Bute at the time of the Disruptions, when he joined the Free Church. In 1856 the estate was acquired by Robertson Buchanan Stewart, and subsequently by his son, Alexande ...
    http://www.ascoghallfernery.co.uk/

  • The Garden History at Stratford Hall Plantation
    The present main approach to the Great House is from the south. Looking beyond the oval, one can see a row of poplars, recalling the entrance drive described by General Lee. The south lawn terminates in a haha wall, an eighteenthcentury device which ...
    http://stratfordhall.org/