Garden room
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In gardening, a garden room is a secluded and partly enclosed space within a garden that creates a room-like effect. Such spaces have been part of garden design for centuries. Generally they are regar
The "Queen Elizabeth II Rose Garden", Titsey Place, planted in 2008
"Dutch-style" garden at Hampton Court Palace
"Desseins de Cabinets et Salons pour des bosquets", illustration from La Théorie et la pratique du jardinage, Dezallier d'Argenville, 1709
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, the "Pebble Garden" in April
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the
Aerial view in 2009: "The most famous twentieth century garden in England"
Model displayed at Sissinghurst depicting Sir Richard Baker's house circa 1560
Sackville-West's portrait by Philip de László hanging in the Big Room of the West Range
The statuary at Sissinghurst was not always of the highest quality. Anne Scott-James describes this one of Dionysus as looking "particularly depressed".