Tagged With "Gloucestershire"
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Sezincote
What a fascinating house and gardens! I wonder how its neighbors regarded it when it was built.
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Sezincote
Perhaps I should have said "owners of other large estates in the area," not, of course, literal neighbors!
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Sezincote
I think the ruling class would have admired this monument to empire, source of wealth and employment for younger sons. And then there's the tradition of eccentricity among those of their class so I suspect no one thought much about it.
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Kiftsgate Court
Wonderful colours and scenery. Worthy of the pages in a Countryside Magazine.
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Kiftsgate Court
Yet another amazing English garden! You really have an eye for what makes a great garden gallery, from overview to detail. Thanks much for sharing these!
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Hidcote
Looks like an enchanted garden. Maybe Alice in Wonderland lives there !
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Hidcote
Yes, a common plant with an uncommon coloring. I'm partial to the fern.
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Hidcote
One of the most beautiful gardens I've ever visited (through your excellent photoessay)! I, too, am partial to the fern. In Canada they are called 'fiddlesticks', for obvious regions, and they are quite delicious when picked early on.
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Hidcote
They are delicious. The most memorable single dish I've ever had was forest ferns, far out into the Chinese countryside near the Burma border, cooked for 3 of us, the only other people for miles I think, the lovely taxi driver who knew the place, my friend and me. Other things, too, but it's the ferns I remember.
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Hidcote
In Maine, where we enjoyed them, they're called "fiddlehead" ferns. Wonder if there are other regional variations? PS...they are even available canned...which I don't even want to try. The same company has canned dandelions as well.
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Re: An English Garden Gallery: Hidcote
Lots of interesting ways to prepare them, and they're said to be rich in antioxidants!
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In the Cotswolds: Chastleton House
PortMoresby continues her progress through the Cotswolds with a visit to Chastleton House near Moreton-in-Marsh and is greeted with the words, "Chastleton is Wolf Hall."
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In the Cotswolds: Buscot Park
After a visit to William Morris’s Kelmscott Manor, PortMoresby crosses the River Thames to visit Buscot Park, with a stunning room dedicated to a Pre-Raphaelite painter and, unexpectedly, warriors in the garden.
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In the Cotswolds: Sezincote
After years admiring pictures of Sezincote’s Neo-Mughal design, PortMoresby visits the house in Gloucestershire and is in for a surprise.
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William Morris at Home: Kelmscott Manor
PortMoresby returns to the story of Arts & Crafts Movement giant, William Morris and visits his retreat in England’s Cotswolds.
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An English Garden Gallery: Hidcote
With a week to spend in the Cotswolds, PortMoresby returns to a place she’s been before, Hidcote Manor Garden in Gloucestershire.
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An English Garden Gallery: Kiftsgate Court
After spending the morning at its neighbor, Hidcote Manor Garden, PortMoresby moves on to another award-winning Cotswold garden, Kiftsgate Court.
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A Cotswold Village, Hidcote Boyce
Take a walk around PortMoresby's English home-for-a-week in Gloucestershire, Hidcote Boyce.
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Re: A Cotswold Village, Hidcote Boyce
Gertrude Stein's description of Oakland ("There is no there there") seems the opposite of Hidcote Boyce: there's little of what we usually expect a town or village to have, but what there is, is all "there."
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Re: A Cotswold Village, Hidcote Boyce
I love the Cotswolds. This beautiful photo essay reminds me it's time to go back!! i
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Chastleton House
What an amazing place! I need to add a few days in the Cotswold next time I've some free days in Europe just to explore these elegant homes! Thanks, PortMoresby. I'm really enjoying your series.
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Chastleton House
Indeed, you should, DrF, or add a few days in Europe on a trip to the Cotswolds!
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Chastleton House
Update: Part 3 of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, 'The Mirror and the Light', will be published later this year. I think that will require a celebratory tour of all the houses used as settings for the BBC's 'Wolf Hall", don't you think?
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Chastleton House
This evening's episode of 'Wolf Hall' had a long & satisfying scene with Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell in the Long Gallery, above. I'd know that floor anywhere.
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Buscot Park
For the first time, Edward Burne-Jones Briar Rose paintings will leave Buscot Park, the house for which they were painted, to join others of the artists works at the Tate Britain gallery, London, from October until February 2019. Read the whole story here .
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Buscot Park
Another great home and gardens, great story and great photos to wrap it all together! You have an unusual gift for sharing your love of these elegant places, PortMoresby. Thanks again!
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Re: In the Cotswolds: Buscot Park
Thanks for saying so, DrF. Stay tuned, one of my all-time favorites next Saturday.
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Re: William Morris at Home: Kelmscott Manor
Update, Kelmscott Manor is reopening after a £6m renovation.