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Victorian Gardens

A place to relax, read,have tea and just watch the flowers grow.

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History of Victorian Gardens and Gardening in England!


The growth of gardening. The Victorian age, the age of industrial revolution and squalid city slums, was also the age of a popular explosion of interest in that most British of occupations, gardening. And not just as a private pastime. For the first time, a concerted effort was made by authorities to provide extensive public gardens. There was a reason for this benevolent behavior by the well-to-do. They believed that gardens would decrease drunkenness and improve the manners of the lower classes. Intellectuals and the upper classes also encouraged gardening as means of decreasing social unrest.

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Comment by Elizabeth Wallis on May 30, 2013 at 5:23am

ust sharing a picture here of a quaint Victorian village I have had the pleasure of visiting a short while ago.... here in South Africa.

Always easier to step into the past when one visits such places I find.

Comment by Elizabeth Wallis on March 4, 2013 at 12:49am

Thank you for sharing this with us dear Lady Estelle!  I have very fond memories of the Devon area and particularly of a trip we took through the Dartmoor area.  These little cottages dot the countryside and are lovely to come upon.... it brought back happy times for me.... and the flowers are spectacular! 

Comment by Lady Estelle on March 3, 2013 at 11:47am

Carol Klein's First 'Gardeners' World'

Comment by mariaxirot on December 15, 2011 at 12:38pm

beautifull fairy garden

Comment by Elizabeth Wallis on December 15, 2011 at 2:13am

Although this is the sort of quote I would normally put into the Poetry Corner..... I think it belongs here!  Sitting in my Summer Garden, on a bench under two huge cypresses, which I have trimmed the bottom bit of to form a sort of arch above my bench.  I am surrounded as I am perched on the bench, by my flowering Inca Lilies, Agapanthus, a bush of White Hibiscus, and one which is a  Rose of Sharon. I can see my little Rock Island, where I hope the Fairies have moved onto - since I provided them with a little Village, succulent forest, with it's lake created from a circular Mirror.  It even has a little rock River running down the one side, ending in a Martini Glass - with it's broken stem, which I have renamed "Chrystal Lake".   I have never seen the Fairies, but I do so hope they love to come and go here.... and so one day, I wrote these words...... 

"Ethereal

Beautiful

Mystical

and....Elusive -

the Fairies in my Garden

to my sorrow -

remain in their chosen Seclusion!"

ew

Comment by Lady Estelle on November 19, 2011 at 1:58pm

This tree without leaves still looks so stately.

I do not know what the little orange tree is. It is all green in the Spring and Summer and stays this color all Fall and winter. Quite unique.

Comment by Elizabeth Wallis on November 19, 2011 at 11:22am

Your fern looks really happy and healthy indoors, I must say!   But I do love the little shrub in the second picture.  Is that a Japanese Maple (or am I totally off track there? )  Nature is wonderful - she shows off such incredible colours and beauty - even in the winter, one just need to look out for it!  Even a bare tree, totally devoid of leaves can look stunningly arresting when viewed in all it's starkness and artistically arranged branches, don't you think!

Comment by Lady Estelle on November 19, 2011 at 9:48am

Oh, my , how lovely. I just adore Alzaleas.

My garden is indoors for now. It is quite cold here in New England.

But look how lovely this bush has changed for Fall.

I love the Fall colors.

Comment by Elizabeth Wallis on November 17, 2011 at 2:54pm

Hello everyone!

I just have to submit this picture - it was taken earlier in the Spring - and gave me so much pleasure!  This Azalea bush is under my kitchen window - and so is visible from inside as I go about my chores.  It has now turned green again of coarse, and sprouted several new branches too - but the show it gave us this year was the best ever!

Comment by Elizabeth Wallis on June 15, 2011 at 4:28am

Dear Lady Julie-Anne!

I do think that you could have been a tad gentler with the poor little frog - I am submitting here a website you may wish to look at - the next frog might fare better upon your acquaintance! Have a good look at frogsvilleusa.com  it might just amuse one who is feeling a tad bored with life in general.    Resorting to 'frog-throwing' might suggest such a frame of mind, I would think!  Do take care when selecting your Rose Bush, make sure it is a tough one, methinks it has the prospect of a difficult life ahead of it!  Sounds as though it is a dangerous garden into which it will be planted...!  Take care too of your hands - do have the manicure - a Lady should always look her best, and be dressed to impress.  (So, perhaps wash the sand out of the hair too?)

warm affection to you,

Take care,

LADY Elizabeth!

 

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