Let us enter these beautiful gates into the Formal Gardens at Mount Stewart. Today,we will see the Sunk Garden, then the Spanish Garden and lastly the Italian Garden.
Sunk Garden
Spanish
Garden
The
arcades of Cypress designed by Lady Londonderry were inspired by an early
16th-century description written by a Venetian traveller who described how
similar arcades were used by the Moors to line the water parterre of the Garden
of the Generalife near Grenada. The colour palette comes from the blue/green
hue of the Casita tiles and the salmon pink limestone of the decorative well
head, which was bought by Lady Londonderry at the
Chelsea Flower Show in 1926
The
focal building has a beautiful hipped roof with glaucous glazed tiles,
reminiscent of the characteristic roof shape of the pavilions found in the
Islamic Gardens of Spain.
The
design of the central pond was inspired by the plasterwork of the ceiling of
the Little Dining Room or Breakfast Room, the only room on the ground floor of
the house to relate to the garden directly.
You can see the Italian Garden starts at the top of the steps.
Italian
Garden
There
is a richness to the Italian Garden unequalled elsewhere, in its architectural
detail and its planting which is derived from an article Lady Londonderry wrote
for the RHS Journal in 1935.
I hope you enjoyed more of the gardens at Mount Stewart.
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Many thanks for visiting and also to those who leave comments.
Dramatic and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMy personal preference is for less formal gardens, but these could (almost) change my mind. Thank you.
Beautiful gardens, the only thing would be that I am missing some palm trees in the spanish garden ;-)
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These are all beautiful images of well designed landscaped gardens. Love those archways and love the view of the garden leading to the house taken from the central pond. The entrance gate is also beautiful. I did enjoy my visit to Mount Stewart.:)
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Those gardens are absolutely stunning. Makes me very humble to look at them. But then I wonder how many gardeners work on them. Just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHello Margaret, a lovely entrance gate and what a beautiful garden! Gorgeous images. Thanks for sharing your visit. Have a happy day!
ReplyDeleteOhhhh! Gorgeous photos.
ReplyDeletelove the ivy columns and a great gate!
ReplyDeleteOh my, Margaret. Those arches are so perfectly manicured, and that gate is awesome. Beautiful garden.
ReplyDeleteExquisite garden! And the gate is impressive!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness everything here is exquisite! The planning and work to maintain it all so beautifully is mind boggling! That hedge fence is amazing!
ReplyDeleteMountstewart is a place of so much grace and elegance around every turn! Beautiful gardens and gate too!
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful place to visit. I really like the Italian garden. Of there were some benches that would be the perfect place to sit and read or knit.
ReplyDeleteWow - amazing place! Love those day lilies too.
ReplyDeleteMagnificent photos Margaret!
ReplyDeleteWhat an entrance to one incredible place!
ReplyDeleteWell documented---- great pictures of a fantastic garden!
ReplyDeleteThat is really a wonderful gate into this amazing and beautiful garden. Thank you for sharing these lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteThe gate and garden are wonderful. I love those ivy-covered columns.
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Oh such beautiful Photos and the fencing. The garden and hedges magnificent.
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What a beautiful place - I could sit in one of those gardens all day with a smile on my face! Love the gate.
ReplyDeleteOh my...what breathtaking gardens! Lovely, lovely gates, fences and flowers!
ReplyDeletethese are a good set of photos Margaret
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What a pleasant and enjoyable trip through these lovely gardens.
ReplyDeleteWhat an incredibly beautiful place this is. Love that first image of that gate.
ReplyDeleteWow! These are stunning images from the gardens! Very well taken.
ReplyDeleteOh what amazing fences, especially the green ones in the Spanish gardens. Do I detect the two little girls (from your next post) in this post? Blessings Jo
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, the gardens are amazing. Beautiful photos as always Margaret - they so much make me want to visit these gardens :)
ReplyDeleteHi Margaret, What beautiful gardens! Your photos are gorgeous and the fence is amazing. This would be a special place to visit and tour.
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wow, that is one beautiful gate and such a nice garden :) Reminded me of a castle garden in Sweden, But that one is much smaller.
ReplyDeleteAlready the gate ist great!
ReplyDeleteThe Spanish garden is lovely with its green columns and the pond.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful and well maintained garden. It surely will be a lovely haven for macro photographers, how i wish i am nearby. Thanks for visiting my site too.
ReplyDeleteSo very beautiful and wonderfully captured.
ReplyDeleteThe house is separated at the top by two cantelievered boxes, one is the master bedroom, the other the child's room, each with their own private stair in the center of the home so you cannot directly walk from one bedroom to the next. building a privacy fence
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