British Gardens in Time Archives

British Gardens in Time – Nymans episode 4

Gardening Shows / 3 minutes of reading / February 20, 2020 / By HDclump

British Gardens in Time – Nymans episode 4: Nymans, one of the most fashionable and romantic gardens of the Edwardian and interwar years, was the creation of a family of German emigres of Jewish descent. The Messels arrived in Britain in 1870 at a time when both anti-semitism and anti-German sentiment were rife. Nevertheless, Ludwig Messel succeeded in establishing a successful stockbroking firm and creating at Nymans the quintessential English garden with rare plants and a theatrical herbaceous border inspired by William Robinson. His children and grandchildren would continue to develop the garden and the family’s spectacular social […]

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British Gardens in Time – Biddulph Grange episode 3

Gardening Shows / 2 minutes of reading / February 19, 2020 / By HDclump

British Gardens in Time – Biddulph Grange episode 3: Biddulph Grange, the best-surviving Victorian garden in the country, takes the visitor on a whistlestop journey around the world from China to Egypt in a series of gardens connected by tunnels and subterranean passageways. Biddulph was created at the height of the British Empire by James Bateman, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Bateman was fascinated by botany and the emerging technologies of the Victorian era, filling his garden with rare specimens tracked down by the Victorian plant hunters laid out to designs that purported to come from around

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British Gardens in Time – Stowe episode 2

Gardening Shows / 3 minutes of reading / February 18, 2020 / By HDclump

British Gardens in Time – Stowe episode 2: Stowe, one of the most remarkable creations of Georgian England, is the birthplace of the landscape garden. Created on a vast scale with 36 temples, eight lakes and a dozen avenues, Stowe launched the career of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and fostered a rebellion that overthrew the first British prime minister, Robert Walpole. Rather than being a garden of flowers and shrubs, Stowe is a garden of ideas and its grottos and classical monuments spell out a furious, coded political manifesto. Stowe’s creator, Viscount Cobham, dreamt of climbing to the pinnacle

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British Gardens in Time – Great Dixter episode 1

Gardening Shows / 2 minutes of reading / February 17, 2020 / By HDclump

British Gardens in Time – Great Dixter episode 1: Great Dixter lays claim to being the most innovative, spectacular and provocative garden of the 20th century. Made famous by the much-loved eccentric plants man and writer Christopher Lloyd, who used the garden as a living laboratory and documented his experiments in a weekly column in Country Life, Great Dixter began life as a Gertrude Jekyll-inspired Arts and Crafts garden surrounding a house designed by Edwin Lutyens. The Lloyd family created Dixter just before the outbreak of the First World War with the intention of establishing a rural idyll

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