Tuesday
Sep112012
Herbaceous Borders
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 13:46
The informal landscape during the eighteenth century banished flowers to the walled garden. It wasn’t until the creation of a flower garden by the poet William Mason for the Earl of Harcourt at Nuneham Park that the island bed was revived, and then repopularised by Humpry Repton in the early nineteenth century. The invention of the Wardian case, allowed gardeners to plant colourful borders throughout the year using a mixture of perennials and annuals. Arley Hall, Sissinghurst, Hidcote Manor, The Priory and Kemerton are great places to visit and see established herbaceous borders.