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Nymans is an English garden to the south of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England. The garden was developed, starting in the late nineteenth century, by
Marginally hardy exotics thrive in Nymans' sheltered microclimate
The southern frontage of Nymans in 1932 before the fire and subsequent ruin
The southern frontage today. The ruined house remains a garden feature.
Mixed borders of perennials and annuals in midsummer
Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, KBE was an Anglo-Irish peer. He was known as Lord Oxmantown from 1908 until 1918.
Nymans
…which survives as a garden ruin. The house was partially rebuilt and became the home of Leonard Messel's daughter, Anne Messel, and her second husband Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse. At Leonard Messel's death in 1953 it was bequeathed to the National Trust with 111 hectares (275 acres) of woodland, one of the first gardens taken…
Railway Club at Oxford, conceived by John Sutro, dominated by Harold Acton. Left to right, back: Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Weymouth, David Plunket Greene, Harry Stavordale, Brian Howard. Middle row: Michael Rosse, John Sutro, Hugh Lygon, Harold Acton, Bryan Guinness, Patrick Balfour, Mark Ogilvie-Grant, Johnny Drury-Lowe; front: porters.
Birr Castle, County Offaly. Seat of the Earls of Rosse