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The second part of the post of my daughter's pictures of Sark are below the cut. They feature the garden of the Seigneurie, the traditional home of the feudal lord of the island. There are a couple of lovely pictures. You can tell it has been a nice autumn down in the Channel Islands when you look at the pictures and remember she took them on 6th October.



This is the Seignurie -

Sark seignurie

And here is a tower in the wall surrounding the gardens -

Sark tower

And the dove-cot, which I love dearly -

Sark dovecot

Now come through into the garden -

Sark garden gate

Sark garden 1

Sark garden 2

Sark flowers

I'm thinking that fuchsia must have made her feel quite at home!

Sark garden 3


Sark butterfly


And finally - a close-up of that rather beautiful metal hinge on the door through to the garden -

Sark doorway close-up

Date: 30/10/2013 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It is rather lovely - and my daughter does take some good pictures to give us the feel of the place.

Date: 31/10/2013 10:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com
She clearly remembered how fond you are of arches and doorways, as well :-)

Date: 01/11/2013 08:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I think it is a family trait - she seems to always look out for them too.

Actually that garden reminded me rather of the one I wrote about in the Faramir and Éowyn drabbles a while ago, or one of the other of their gardens mentioned in The Winter Garden. I can easily see it as being beside their house in Ithilien.

Can you see Legolas and Rowanna walking through them once there had been a few years to get the planting established?

Date: 01/11/2013 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azalaisdep.livejournal.com
I could see those formal gardens as being in Minas Tirith (or Rivendell) - somehow I'd always imagined Emyn Arnen's gardens as a little wilder-looking, more Capability Brown if you know what I mean. Though there might be more formal beds around the house, and the kitchen garden and herb garden would doubtless be quite regularly laid out (you need to be able to find things, after all!)

Legolas would be on his hands and knees talking to the shrubbery ;-) while Rowanna gave up waiting for him and went to sleep under a tree...

Date: 01/11/2013 11:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Isn't it interesting how we see things almost alike, but not quite? I thought the colour of the stone and bricks wrong for Gondor, or for Minas Tirith at least. And I see that large garden as too informal!

My mental image of the gardens around the house in Ithilin is in The Winter Garden -

The manor house in which Éowyn and Faramir lived had been rebuilt from the ruins of one which had stood in Ithilien many years before. It was a mixture of comfortable family home and stately splendour.

Around it were a series of gardens. Legolas, in particular, had spent time trying to work out what the original grounds must have looked like; finally falling with glee on an ancient estate book, full of accounts and diagrams, found by Anarion, the head librarian in the Citadel, which confirmed much of what he had already deduced.

Apart from kitchen gardens there was a medicinal garden, a walled rose garden, a knot garden, and one or two other enclosed areas full of drifts of flowers. Between these were courtyards and open areas of grass designed simply for sitting; or as places for playing games when the weather was fine. There was a series of tree-lined walks, for the ladies of the household to take their exercise in both wintry weather and high summer, and finally, hidden away but near the house, there was a small walled area known as the Winter Garden.


So in many ways similar to yours.

In time I have added a better description of the walled garden nearest the house - in A Year in the Walled Garden (http://curiouswombat.livejournal.com/330592.html). I think this one might fit in quite well, for me.

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