The Knot Garden at Moseley Old Hall
Knot gardens were developed in Tudor times, and are a rectangular bed upon which a pattern was outlined using box hedges. The more intricate or ‘beknotted’ the better.
The design chosen for the knot garden comes from one of four laid out by the Rev Walter Stonehouse between 1631 and 1640 at his rectory in Darfield, South Yorkshire.
Rev Stonehouse's garden is displayed in a manuscript in the library at Magdalen College, Oxford and the original garden was still surviving as late as 1922.
As Stonehouse was a keen plantsman, the original would probably have been in-filled with box hedging and plants.
The Knot Garden at Moseley Old Hall
Knot gardens were developed in Tudor times, and are a rectangular bed upon which a pattern was outlined using box hedges. The more intricate or ‘beknotted’ the better.
The design chosen for the knot garden comes from one of four laid out by the Rev Walter Stonehouse between 1631 and 1640 at his rectory in Darfield, South Yorkshire.
Rev Stonehouse's garden is displayed in a manuscript in the library at Magdalen College, Oxford and the original garden was still surviving as late as 1922.
As Stonehouse was a keen plantsman, the original would probably have been in-filled with box hedging and plants.