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Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Taken on a day trip on 10th October 2014. For more information about Mottisfont, Visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/mottisfont/
Okay so this FLickr thing is really amazing. You guys are so smart.
This shot was a 'drive-by-n-turn-around' - except it took me 2 miles w/ someone right on my tail - grrr
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Owned and cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, Pitmedden Garden is easy to overlook against the background of the fine castles and stately homes the NTS also care for in Aberdeenshire, all of which come complete with their own gardens and estates. Why bother with a garden on its own when you can enjoy one together with the house or castle it was built for? The simple answer is that if you overlook Pitmedden Garden, you overlook one of the most spectacular and distinctive gardens in Scotland, a 1950s recreation of the "Great Garden" first established here in the years from 1675.
If you do so you also, incidentally, overlook the fascinating Museum of Farming Life created almost as an afterthought and housed in the farm buildings occupying part of the site.
Once in the garden itself there is little immediately on view beyond enclosing hedges and the sculpture of two boxing hares. Rounding the rear of the house brings you into the true upper part of the garden. This is home to broad lawns and finely sculptured and regulated trees and hedges, and to two parterres. A parterre is a highly formalised garden usually involving closely clipped hedges and laid out in a symmetrical pattern. The idea started life in France and England in the early 1600s, but most were replaced when the fashion for landscape gardening took hold from the 1720s.
Prepare to have your breath taken away, because your first view across Pitmedden's lower garden is remarkable. Here, apparently sunk into the ground (in fact terraced into the side of the slight slope on which the whole garden is built) is an enormous walled enclosure with a central tree lined avenue and four distinct parterres. Taken with the two on the upper level, these provide a history of the development of a parterre. And if you have ever recoiled at the idea of trimming your hedge at home, spare a though for those responsible for keeping the six miles of closely trimmed hedging at Pitmedden in such magnificent condition.
The original plans for the garden were burned in a fire in 1807 along with the Pitmedden house, so these gardens are based on those at Holyrood in Edinburgh and with some designed from scratch to incorporate elements celebrating the Great Garden's founder, Sir Alexander Seton.
Or it could be a Small Skipper (T. sylvestris)
Whatever it is, photographed in Lion Creek Nature Reserve