Hadspen aka The Newt in Somerset, by Anne Wareham
The garden is actually interestingly old fashioned. It’s not just the bedding but the relentless inclusion of every garden cliché, however brilliantly executed.
Lawrence Halprin’s Heritage Plaza: A Crying Shame by Susan Cohan
“Despite my swagger, I’m a softy. I well up in tears when I am moved by something–not usually landscapes or gardens.
A Chelsea garden in Monmouthshire reviewed by Patterson Webster and Anne Wareham
This is another re-issue, to remind me of a happy day with a great friend. We will meet our friends again one day – we will. Editor, Anne Wareham….
Les Jardins d’Étretat by Charles Hawes
” I am informed that the trampoline is modelled on the boudoir of Marie-Antoinette, (really? That must have been some strange room).”
The Best Garden I visited this year: : De Wiersse
I did feel I had stepped behind the mirror, like Alice (although I did not meet the Mad Hatter …)
The Best Garden I Visited this Year: Haseley Court
I know you have all been desperately wondering what on earth happened to the Best Garden reviews. ‘Before Christmas’, I said. Hm – well Christmas…
The Best Garden I visited: Dixter x Two
I have heard it said that you shouldn’t meet your idols and while this doesn’t strictly apply to famous gardens, our visit to Great Dixter hadn’t been at all what I had thought it would be.
The Best Garden I visited this year: results
Whether the sculpture is to your taste isn’t really relevant because each one has been used to remind us that the garden is part of the wider landscape
Plume Puzzle by Adam Hodge
Jardin Plume is one of those gardens which not long ago got featured everywhere. So when Charles Hawes was in France for the Chaumont Garden…
Berchigranges Garden reviewed by Noel Kingsbury
Another garden review, and, as Noel says, also an opportunity for someone to get in there and wreck it..maybe take over. Anyone game? And is it the…
Fuller’s Mill – a review by Helen Seal
Garden reviews at their best raise interesting questions which take their interest beyond the immediate garden being reviewed. For me this review by…
Sudeley Castle, a review by Tristan Gregory
If you are of a delicate disposition, look away now. Tristan is back. He visited Sudeley Castle, site of the grave of Katherine Parr. As usual,…
Well loved – or totally forgotten? Russell Page Exhibition reviewed by Francois Gordon
Russell Page is being honoured at present by the Garden Museum in London. To publicise the exhibition, Christopher Woodward, the director of the…
This other Eden, demi-paradise? – a review by Noel Kingsbury
Such a relief when someone says ‘fantastic doesn’t mean flawless’…. Thanks, Noel! Anne Wareham, editor Review of the Eden Project by Noel…
Art or Science? a review of Througham Court by Pat Webster
I’ve never managed to get into Througham Court yet. One day I will. Meanwhile, thanks (many thanks) to Pat Webster of the excellent and truly…
