
I have been a little too terse with the best/worst front garden collection. A bit of explanation is required. In towns and villages a front garden is public. Yes, they go with the house but are shared with the passers by who might lob their rubbish in, help themselves to the owner’s plants or [...]
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WHO? Carol Klein
WHY? Artist and plantswoman extraordinaire.
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Rosa x odorata ‘Viridiflora’. This rose would go well with either pistachio ice-cream or a dark red flowering clematis such as Ville de Lyons or Niobe. It is truly green, climbs in a moderate way and has no petals but sepals instead. Some say it is ugly. I don’t agree.
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Il Sacro Bosco is a wierd and perplexing garden set in a ravine below the town of Bomarzo in the Sabine Hills. The Orsini palace, scowling above, is built on an outcrop of tufa, the local volcanic rock. Below it, hidden in a fold of the land, a collection of giant statues carved out of [...]
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