Dicht bij de Waddenzee in het hoge noorden van Groningen ligt de Menkemaborg met haar tuin uit 1700. De plek waar Rita Wortelboer haar naam letterlijk aan verbonden heeft. We gingen op bezoek op het moment dat de Magnolia in volle bloei stond. ▷ Met dank aan: De Menkemaborg & Rita Wortelboer
Category: Landscape Architecture
The Plough, Buckinghamshire; formal organic design
he Plough near Wendover in Buckinghamshire has been the home of Sue and John Stewart for over 30 years. In that time they have transformed windswept lawns into a formal organic garden with open views to the Chiltern countryside. Designed as a series of outdoor rooms around a listed former 18th century inn the cool…
The real secret garden; the most famous garden in literature
The gardens at Great Maytham Hall are perhaps the most famous in literature. Strolling through the rose-filled walled gardens in the early 1900s, Frances Hodgson Burnett felt inspired by the thought of a secret garden; overgrown and waiting to be discovered …
FLORATUBE.ORG 