#walled garden
A Grand Gateway
One of a number of gateways providing access to the four-acre walled garden at Barmeath Castle, County Louth. A map dating from the mid-1770s and drawn up by the surveyor Charles Frizell shows this area of the demesne to be a shrubbery with no evidence of enclosure, indicating the walled garden, like so many others, was only created in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. Unusually, all the…
“Sheltered Garden,” by H.D.
I have had enough.
I gasp for breath.
Every way ends, every road,
every foot-path leads at last
to the hill-crest—
then you retrace your steps,
or find the same slope on the other side,
precipitate.
I have had enough—
border-pinks, clove-pinks, wax-lilies,
herbs, sweet-cress. […]
read the rest here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48189/sheltered-garden
[from Le Roman de la Rose, BL Egerton 1069]
• Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra PoundandRichard Aldington. She published under the pen name H.D. More: https://www.google.com/search?q=hd+poet&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS773US779&oq=hd+poet&aqs=chrome..69i57j46j0l2.2326j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
• The text of the Roman de la rose was begun around 1220, possibly by Guillaume de Lorris and continued by Jean de Meun between 1269-1278. It is around 20,000 octosyllabic lines of French verse narrating the dream of a young lover, in which the long quest he has undertaken ends when he breaches the castle of Jealousy and obtains the rose. More: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8553&CollID=28&NStart=1069
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Alnwick Gardens
Various photos throughout the gardens. It was a lush summer day with buzzing bees and endless blooms. I was supremely impressed with the gardens and highly recommend a visit. We took the train to Alnmouth from York then hopped on the short bus ride to Alnwick to visit the gardens and the castle.
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Door to the walled garden……
2016 Year in Review
In August, the annuals are beginning to escape from their borders and sprawl gracefully onto the paths.
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Last week I visited the Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers. I took the Metro North and walked up quite a hill to get there, and it was worth it! The gardens have really beautiful views. It is a small property compared to the botanical gardens I have been visiting, so it didn’t take long for me to see everything, but it’s the kind of place that makes you want to stop and stay awhile, I brought a book and enjoyed reading on benches throughout the gardens. There were a handful of succulents, but overall a nice mix of different plants (marigolds were in abundance when I visited). The architecture was beautiful (the water feature in the walled garden was a favorite). Some of the garden areas feel like ruins, with columns still standing, but their former states have been lost. The gardens are located in an unusual area, surrounded by medical buildings, but stepping into the walled garden you feel like you have entered into a very special place. The grounds have a lot of potential and I hope that the idea is to preserve as well as to rebuild some of the areas to their former states. A lovely day trip.
Check out their lovely tumblr page here.
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Big mansion at Greenbank Garden. it’s interesting to note that some windows are painted - they are not real! The walled garden looks tidy from the outside. It’s a shame that currently it’s closed due to the pandemic. Will have to go back the other day.
