Decorative plaster at Harvard House, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.
As promised back in Picture of the Week #634, here’s a close-up of the plasterwork in the dining room of Harvard House.
Decorative plaster at Harvard House, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.
As promised back in Picture of the Week #634, here’s a close-up of the plasterwork in the dining room of Harvard House.
Pond gardens at Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.
This is the other garden next to the Pond Garden I posted in Picture of the Week #439 and looking back towards the Palace so you can see Mary II’s Orangery. These sunken areas were fish ponds in Tudor times and then were drained and made into gardens under William & Mary.
Garden center at Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.
This is another view of the garden that I showed in Picture of the Week #608. I said then that if I had a house with a yard, I would do something like that and… well… I’m about to move back into a house with a yard. I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to started until next fall/winter (summer is too hot in Texas for a lot of landscaping!) but I’m definitely planning to get some gardens going!
Ruins of stairs at Framlingham Castle. Photo May 2015.
I’m not exactly sure what part of the castle this is the ruins of. It was outside the walls and on the way to the beginning of the path around the Mere, but other than that, I’m not sure architecturally what this section was (and the guidebook didn’t have quite enough detail for me to figure it out).