Caroline Garland’s visit to Le Bois des Moutiers…Lutyens Lutyens everywhere! with a smattering of Gertrude Jekyll
Monday, 24 June 2013
by caroline
In fact this should really be the other way round. The garden is a french garden in Normandy: the house designed in 1898 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and the garden by Gertrude Jekyll, the only one like it in France.. However where the planting is absolutely pure Jekyll heaven the house is pure Lutyens hell!
- Published in Gardens Visited
Caroline Garland’s visit to Les Jardins de Sericourt, Normandy – weird but wonderful
Sunday, 23 June 2013
by caroline
These gardens have evolved through the ownership and work of Yves and Guillaume Gosse de Gorre (father and son) who have made a garden which suggests various war scenes such as the warrior garden, the battlefield, the warrior masks, bombshell craters, aisle of mourners etc etc. It is weird and wonderful, but fascinating…
- Published in Gardens Visited
Caroline Garland’s visit to Les Jardins Agapanthe, Normandy – a small paradise
Sunday, 23 June 2013
by caroline
These gardens are owned and designed by Alexandre Thomas and you have never seen anything quite like them… you walk into another world. Take a look at these photos and you’ll see what I mean
- Published in Gardens Visited
Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny – the most beautiful garden
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
by caroline
- Published in Gardens Visited
Dunsborough Park Gardens NGS open day with garden designer, Caroline Garland
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
by caroline
You may have read my recent blog about the wonderful gardens and statuary at Dunsborough Park which I visited at their recent NGS open day. Well I am adding to the blog because the entire collection of garden statuary is coming under the hammer at Christie’s South Kensington. The collection – several of the pieces
- Published in Gardens Visited
Spot the busy bees at Chelsea Physic Garden
Thursday, 06 June 2013
by caroline
- Published in Caroline's favourite flowers, Gardens Visited