Sark Part Two

[curiouswombat]

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 -



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



And the dove-cot, which I love dearly -



Now come through into the garden -









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







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

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[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.