Hidcote Manor Garden: tulip & bluebell borders
Spring flowers -- tulips and bluebells -- in a border bed of Hidcote Manor Garden (in at Hidcote Bartrim in Gloucestershire, west-central England), on a partly sunny morning in mid-May 2010.
The cold winter of 2009/2010 had delayed blooming by several weeks, particularly up in the northern Cotswold Hills, where Hidcote is located, so tulips were still at a peak.
Hidcote Manor was purchased by Gertrude Winthrop, an American, in 1907. Her son, Major Lawrence Johnston (1871-1958), who became a British citizen, designed the garden as a series of garden "rooms," each with its distinctive planting themes, colour schemes, and so forth, typically separated by high topiary hedges or walls -- an approach that became a classic of garden design. (This border was beside a wall of the Old Garden.) It continues to be considered an outstanding example of an Arts and Crafts garden. In 1947, Johnston donated the property to the National Trust.
(Historical information from the National Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 10 April 2020, as well as from the print guidebook, Hidcote Manor Garden (London: National Trust, 2004). Major Johnston's birth and death dates from US Library of Congress/Name Authority Cooperative "authority record" nr 90004663.)
(From the "archive" -- 2010.)
[Hidcote Manor Garden tulip bluebell bed 2010 may 18 c; IMG_2590]
Hidcote Manor Garden: tulip & bluebell borders
Spring flowers -- tulips and bluebells -- in a border bed of Hidcote Manor Garden (in at Hidcote Bartrim in Gloucestershire, west-central England), on a partly sunny morning in mid-May 2010.
The cold winter of 2009/2010 had delayed blooming by several weeks, particularly up in the northern Cotswold Hills, where Hidcote is located, so tulips were still at a peak.
Hidcote Manor was purchased by Gertrude Winthrop, an American, in 1907. Her son, Major Lawrence Johnston (1871-1958), who became a British citizen, designed the garden as a series of garden "rooms," each with its distinctive planting themes, colour schemes, and so forth, typically separated by high topiary hedges or walls -- an approach that became a classic of garden design. (This border was beside a wall of the Old Garden.) It continues to be considered an outstanding example of an Arts and Crafts garden. In 1947, Johnston donated the property to the National Trust.
(Historical information from the National Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 10 April 2020, as well as from the print guidebook, Hidcote Manor Garden (London: National Trust, 2004). Major Johnston's birth and death dates from US Library of Congress/Name Authority Cooperative "authority record" nr 90004663.)
(From the "archive" -- 2010.)
[Hidcote Manor Garden tulip bluebell bed 2010 may 18 c; IMG_2590]