Dunrobin gardens, originally uploaded by ANDREW MACNEILAGE.
I love the special effects applied to this garden photo of Dunrobin Castle gardens. The imagery is striking.
Sorry about the recent absence but my wife and I just had a little baby girl so gardening life has been delayed a little. Everyone is healthy and that’s what counts.
I also seem to have encountered a glitch and this site displayed a blank page with “Hello World” for the past little while. I hope it hasn’t been for long. The problem has been fixed and there should be more garden photos soon to help us all through the bleak and dreary winter season.
DSC_0227.JPG, originally uploaded by tranism.
If I’ve got it right this is a picture from “The Japanese Garden” - a public garden park in Van Nuys, California. I believe that is the Tea House you can see in the background across the extensive water portion of the gardens. I especially like the small islands. Very Zen.
Japanese Garden, originally uploaded by deegs.
Biddulph Grange is a National Trust house and landscaped gardens, situated in Biddulph near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. “Behind a gloomy Victorian shrubbery there’s a gloomy Victorian mansion, but behind that lurks one of the most extraordinary gardens in Britain…it contains whole continents, including China and Ancient Egypt - not to mention Italian terraces and a Scottish glen.
Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by Mike Rollinger.
In the Egyptian part of the garden, “Two sphinxes guard the mastaba-like entrance to a tunnel, whose darkness is an invitation to explore. Deep inside is a bloody chamber (lit by a hidden window of red-coloured glass) in which squats the half-spooky, half-comic figure of the Ape of Thoth.”
Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by kev747.
The true brilliance of Biddulph Grange “lies in the way that Cooke and Bateman hid the different areas of the garden from each other, using heaps of rocks and thickly planted shrubberies’ the design locks together as tightly as a jigsaw or a cross-section of the brain.” It contains “a series of Italianate terraces, connected by steps and enclosing small flower gardens’ at the bottom, long, buttressed hedges enclose a dahlia walk.”
Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by quimby.
A Shady Spot, originally uploaded by ballycroy.
Keukenhof or the Garden of Europe is situated near Lisse, Netherlands, and is the world’s largest flower garden. According to the official website for the Keukenhof Park, there are approximately seven million flower bulbs planted every year.
Azalias at the Keukenhof, originally uploaded by ballycroy.
Keukenhof is located in South Holland between the towns of Hillegom and Lisse, south of Haarlem and southwest of Amsterdam. The garden idea was to have a flower exhibit where growers from all over the Netherlands and Europe could show off their hybrids which will help the Netherlands as it is the world’s largest exporter of flowers. Keukenhof has been the world’s largest flower garden for over fifty years.
White Tulips, originally uploaded by ballycroy.
Keukenhof is open annually from the last week of March to mid-May. The best time to view the tulips is around mid-April, depending on the weather.
Keukenhof, originally uploaded by dbaron.
