The gardens were pretty much as we remembered them, though somewhat less impressive. Perhaps we were gardened-out. Or maybe it was too much rock. Anyhow, the most impressive part this visit was the model and display on Paxton's Great Conservatory, constructed at Chatsworth in the 1830s, demolished in the 1920s, the direct predecessor to the Crystal Palace, an engineering marvel for 1850.
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Attempted improvement on a shot
I did in 2009, of Paxton's Emperor's
Fountain from the house |
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Viewing a bit of the lawn and Grillet's Cascade, also from the
house |
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The Cascade; somehow we just couldn't face climbing
the hill this time |
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| Looking back to the house |
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The Weeping Willow fountain
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In Paxton's extensive rock garden; goes on for acres; the rocks all hauled from elsewhere and placed carefully, piece by piece |
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| More rock garden |
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| Not all that many rhododendra |
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| Flower gardens and maze where... |
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| Paxton's Great Conservatory was located (helpful model) |
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The larger site of the Great Conservatory; 227 x 123 x 67 feet;
called The Great Stove because of its 8 boilers |
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| About...and photo |
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Victorian photo from Wikipedia; a visiting Charles Darwin wrote
that in the Great Conservatory's gardens, "art beats nature..." |
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| Among the tree-lined boulevards |
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| Me shutting off the Emperor Fountain |
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| But I turned it back on |
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Parthian shot of the Elizabethan deer hunting tower
from the foot of the Cascade |
1 comment:
If you were in Arkansas, you wouldn't have to carry those rocks very far to make your rock garden!
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