'Lady Courteney devoted herself to gardening.The bags came out from London laden with bulbs and cuttings and soon there sprang up around the Legation a luxuriant English garden; lilac and lavender, privet and box, grass walks and croquet lawn ,rockeries and wildernesses,herbaceous borders, bowers of rambler roses, puddles of water-lilies and an immature maze'....
Monday, May 17, 2010
English Gardening
'Lady Courteney devoted herself to gardening.The bags came out from London laden with bulbs and cuttings and soon there sprang up around the Legation a luxuriant English garden; lilac and lavender, privet and box, grass walks and croquet lawn ,rockeries and wildernesses,herbaceous borders, bowers of rambler roses, puddles of water-lilies and an immature maze'....
I saw just such an English garden in Shimla! It was the garden of the Viceregal Lodge. BUt unfortunately, the drought had made the lawns wither.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I always love when I find such descriptions in books that are not otherwise about gardening.
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