Newstead Abbey- Gardens

[poliphilo]

The 19th century Spanish Garden



An ornament in the Rose Garden



The Japanese Garden- created for Ethel Webb in 1907



Japanese maples

Comments

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Absolutely beautiful.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I´ve been consulting Google again and apparently the Spanish garden is named that because the wellhead came from Spain. Otherwise, it´s very French in its layout. I´ve seen very similar gardens here in Spain copied from the French.

The stone face looks almost indigenous in nature (Mexican indigenous, perhaps?).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I haven't a clue about the head. The only thing I'm sure of is that it isn't medieval- but it could be almost anything else. The way it's been clumsily mortared into the wall suggests that it's a random thing that caught someone's fancy. It doesn't have to have anything to do with Newstead. It could have been brought back from abroad. it could have been picked up in an antique shop....

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO BE THERE. NOW.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Me too....

It's all breathtaking...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

And I am a little envious. What does it for me though, is that Japanese Maple. I've been procrastinating about getting one for years. How many years have I waited already? What a dumb thing to do huh?

Gonna do an online search right now and have one shipped to me!

Re: It's all breathtaking...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The colours of the leaves are just wonderful, aren't they?

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

More and more beautiful - thank you

[fidget]

I'm loving all these pictures. Newstead Abbey is very high on my list on places I'd like to see someday -- number three, I think.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What are numbers 1 & 2?