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...Nature-friendly gardens by the landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith win admiration around the world....
...The property features an art gallery, barn, six-car garage, hot tub, tennis court, golf course, helipad, two ponds and sweeping lawns....
...“There are some amazing artists in the gardening world,” Hoblyn continues, and goes on to namecheck prolific garden designers such as Tom Stuart-Smith and Dan Pearson and talented horticulturists, such as...
...On the estate, a dividing wall separates the Victorian walled gardens as a whole into a vegetable garden and what was until last year a large croquet lawn next to a swimming pool with a loosely themed Mediterranean...
...Will there be a field, a lawn, a mile-long walk, cobbles, mountain climbing involved? Let’s tackle grassy areas first....
...Possibly the most famous example is at Great Dixter’s topiary lawn, where bulbous yews sit waist-deep in the golden grasses of midsummer. But the effect can be just as dazzling on a smaller scale....
...of the garden as heaven, as paradise.”...
...This year, as we shelter beneath gazebos on summer lawns, it will offer high glamour with a sense of stability. A paradox for a post-pandemic world....
...I’m greeted by Stuart Webber, the club’s sporting director. As he takes me on a tour, the 37-year-old Welshman greets staffers planting herb gardens and rose bushes....
...The lineage of great garden designers has continued at Fort Belvedere, with Tom Stuart-Smith now helping the Weston family....
...Up in North Yorkshire at Mount St John, Chris Blundell has turned to the designer Tom Stuart-Smith for the planting plan of his superbly sited garden....
...Be careful selecting paint colours for the wall and shrubs for the garden when the landlord is a cut-throat investor such as Steve Schwarzman (Blackstone), Barry Sternlicht (Starwood) or Tom Barrick (Colony...
...At a “millionaire’s garden” — as Page put it — on a hillside near Monte Carlo, outside contractors maintained the swimming pool, the rock waterfall and palm trees on the lawn, which had been wrestled from...
...Stuart was promptly asked to design a replica for the landscape garden at Shugborough in Staffordshire....
...Oxford College Gardens, by Tim Richardson, Frances Lincoln, RRP£40 Richardson’s well-informed narrative and Andrew Lawson’s superb pictures conjure the gardens at their peak, from my colleague Robin Lane...
...Why There is a secure back garden with a large lawn and pond. The orchard has fig, almond and olive trees, and is surrounded by one-metre-thick stone walls....
...Beyond the summer blooms and lawns of the formal garden and behind a field of dozing sheep, she has planted an arboretum of rare and interesting trees....
...The front lawn slopes so steeply that it almost conceals a garden of formal box-edged beds on a level below. They are unusually shaped and contain sweet peas on cane wigwams....
...The decision came after abortive talks to put most of the magazines into a joint venture with Meredith, an Iowa group that publishes female-focused titles such as Better Homes and Gardens....
...At a less practical level I have enjoyed engaging with Rory Stuart’s What Are Gardens For? (Frances Lincoln, £16.99)....
...Most of the accessible space, however, is given over to lawn, on which there are deckchairs, occasional yoga and fitness classes, and a large central fire pit for cool evenings....
...… Out to grass As the boss of the company responsible for maintaining some of the UK’s best-known lawns, Neil Kirkby will be on familiar ground as he sets out on his gardening leave....
...But I do not think, either, that a wildflower meadow is “essentially a lawn that has been allowed to grow wild”....
...In the seaside village where I spent my childhood summers, the annual regatta fireworks display was launched from the rocks just feet from our lawn....
...We meet her boring husband (Stuart Fox), her interfering sister-in-law (Sarah Lawn standing in for Joanna David at the performance I saw) and her estranged and strange son (Dominic Hecht)....
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