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The gardens of Hursley Park were extensive and highly regarded. They were greatly enhanced in the decade after the major remodelling of the house in 1902-1903. The Japanese sunken garden, with an avenue of fruit trees continuing south and an ornamental lead water tank as its focus, dates from this time.
This nineteenth century Victorian mainsion is set against the stunning beauty of Killarney National Park and is built in the so called " Tudor Style ". This beautiful mainsion was built for Henry Arthur Herbert.
The Herberts undertook extensive garden works, like this sunken garden, in preparation for Queen Victoria's visit in 1861.
The preparations for this royal visit were so complicated that Herberts family ran into financial problems and after the queen's visit they went bankrupt.
They were forced to sell Muckross House...
The Sunken Garden with its lovely pool on a beautiful summer evening. Hedges serve as fences here.
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She always knew she was destined to perform solo! Living her life large, she glows with an inner fire all her own, no Photoshop needed here.
Butchart Gardens
Brentwood Bay
British Columbia, Canada
Quarry Lake is a significant feature of the Sunken Garden, which was created in a worked-out limestone quarry.
We were here shortly after the Gardens opened on a cool and drizzly April day, and enjoyed a quiet hour before many others arrived.
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Welcome to Spring!
Earth's rebirth will lead to such beauty soon.
A view of Victoria's colorful Sunken Garden. Just one of the many amazing walks thru Butchart Garden.
Have a wonderful warmer week.
The deep pink detail and golden highlights at the center of this peony create a dramatic contrast with the white petals.
Slowed the shutter speed down a bit on this little waterfall scene at Sunken Gardens.
St. Petersburg, FL
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When in Victoria one must visit this nearby world-class garden. Incredible...
A couple friends enjoyed a good visit in a beautiful setting.
"In 1907, 65-year-old garden designer Isaburo Kishida of Yokohama came to Victoria to design some gardens. Several prominent citizens, Jennie Butchart among them, commissioned Japanese gardens from Kishida for their estates. .
In 1909, when the former limestone quarry was exhausted, Jennie set about turning it into the Sunken Garden (seen here), which was completed in 1921. They named their home "Benvenuto" ("welcome" in Italian), and began to receive visitors to their gardens.
In 1939, the Butcharts gave the Gardens to their grandson Ian Ross (1918–1997) on his 21st birthday. Ross was involved in the operation and promotion of the gardens until his death 58 years later.
In 2004, to mark the 100th anniversary of The Gardens were designated as a national historic site.
Ownership of The Gardens remains within the Butchart family; the owner and managing director since 2001 is the Butcharts' great-granddaughter Robin-Lee Clarke." Wikipedia
The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. With 55 acres of colorful scenes like this it is easy to see why.
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Beautiful Flamingo enjoying the sunshine.
There were 2 Flamingos at the park, and they will soon be adding quite a few more. I loved their light eyes and pink feet :) They multi-tone pink feathers were really striking.
She looked just like a lawn ornament standing there............l
Sunken Gardens
St. Petersburg, Florida USA
Another image from the Sinkhole garden depicted in my previous post.
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Using my lensbaby on a large patch of very bright Livingstone Daisies in Napier's Marine Parade Sunken Garden. The flowers were beautiful vibrant.
The pool in the Sunken Garden, with fog over the Santa Cruz Mountains in the background. It was a treat to walk through this beautiful garden in the early evening at the opening of the 2017 Flower Show.
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Blackberry Ice and Green Spice shades of Coral Bell leaves sit on a small rock ledge within the Sunken Garden in Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
The light picks out the details and patterns of hosta leaves in the Sunken Garden in Wiscasset, near the coast of Maine.
Butchart Gardens
Victoria BC
Canada
I loved how the trees framed this view into the Sunken Garden, giving it a feeling of looking in on a secret place. However, it's far from a secret. The garden was established a hundred years ago and in non-Covid years attracts over a million visitors from all over the world each year. It was built in a former limestone quarry, hence the sunken feature. I've been here more times than I could ever count and it never gets old.
Thanks to a discovery by my wife, we found a new spot to photograph butterflies. Although it is not advertised as a butterfly garden, the plantings at the Sunken Garden Park in Pella, Iowa make it just that.
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I'm back from a lovely holiday visiting family and friends on Vancouver Island.
This is looking down at the Sunken Garden at Butchart Gardens near Victoria.
The the flower beds, in the sunken garden on the Kingston Lacy Estate, planted out ready ready for spring.
Kingston Lacy is a National Trust property.
Jennie Butchart forever transformed our notion of a garden. With 55 acres of a former limestone quarry as her canvas, Jennie started the metamorphosis in 1904. To enter the show-stopping Sunken Garden, visitors walk past pergolas with hanging baskets of giant begonias. Then visitors follow a pathway through a forested area. After rounding a corner the jaw-dropping spectacle of the Sunken Garden reveals its glory. The vision is breathtaking and inspiring. There are 151 flower beds and 900 varieties of bedding plants. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
Once a typical limestone cave, the Umpherston Sinkhole was created when the chamber’s roof collapsed. In modern times the geological feature was transformed into this astonishing garden—with its tall slender palms, its lush flower gardens and a curtain of English ivy that forms a spectacular “wall hanging” around one side of the vertical rock face. And then there’s the resident wildlife. On the more sheltered side of the garden the limestone walls are peppered with nooks, crannies, tunnels and hiding holes that provide habitat for a colony of brush possums that readily come out of hiding to feed on the largess of fruits and vegetables provided by fascinated tourists.
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At the far end of the sunken garden section of Olbrich Botanical Garden in Madison, Wi. A little long exposure shot sans tripod - just held the camera on the edging and pressed it down throughout the exposure.
Sunken Gardens
The sunken gardens are a delightful spot at any time of year.
The Sunken Garden has been described as the parade's 'hidden treasure' because, sited below road level, it offers a sense of serenity and separation from its urban surrounds.
The garden has developed a higher profile since mid-2001 when it was upgraded as part of a Napier City Council revitalisation project aimed at providing better links for Marine Parade attractions.
The revamp made the strip reserve more visible and accessible while preserving its informal and intimate character.
Flights of steps were formed between pohutakawa trees flanking the streetside footpath to lead down into the garden. The pond was made more visible to pedestrians, and that has enhanced its value as a focal point in this passive reserve
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There's quite a variety of flowers at the Sunken Gardens but I liked the simplicity of this little white one with the raindrops.
As soon as the rain began the Flamingos all came together in a big huddle. Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg, FL had just acquired them and they are about 9 months old at the time of this shot.
St. Petersburg, FL
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The Sunken Garden. It's been three bloody years since I've been there. That's depressing....
From the archives obviously....
The Sunken Garden inside the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory building at Como Park next to the Como Zoo in St. Paul, MN. Besides being perennially springtime in here, it smells really good. Check it out: www.comozooconservatory.org.