A country estate features trees and shrubs from around the world, grouped by continent. This fascinating and attractive garden mixes traditional garden design with modern planting techniques, combining interesting new plantings with long established shrubs.
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Buxton, Derbyshire
in the 17th century
"... two beds in a room, some three beds and some four in one roome, so that if you have not Company enough of your own to fill a room they will be ready to put othes into the same chamber, and sometymes they are so crowded that three must lye in a bed; few people stay above two or three nights its so inconvenient ..."
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden- Sissinghurst, Kent, England
An Elizabethan mansion set in fabulous gardens created by Vita Sackville-West. Visitors to the red-brick castle (really a tall gatehouse, the remaining part of the Elizabethan manor complex) can see Sackville-West's study and library. ... more
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