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The Walled Garden

The Walled Garden

Long time friends and readers will know how much I enjoy walled gardens and will understand why I couldn’t resist exploring the walled garden at Shugborough before I left the estate.

The Walled Garden

The Walled Garden

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21 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2013

21 Responses to “The Walled Garden”

  1. james higham says:
    February 28, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    I imagine that could become very muddy in the wet.

  2. Lisl says:
    February 28, 2013 at 9:19 pm

    What a lovely assortment of brick walls, Cherie. Wouldn’t I just love a walled garden!

  3. Claude says:
    February 28, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    What a lovely sight! Specially at this time when we’re having snowy/rainy/unsunny days in Toronto. Thank you for sharing this cheerful garden!

  4. Don QuiScottie says:
    February 28, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    Walled gardens do have a certain something about them. I don’t know what it is. Something from deep in my childhood perhaps. They make me feel almost aware of something hidden and mysterious. I just can’t explain it. Maybe even something leaking through from an earlier life (not that I believe I have had earlier lives… [but you never know]…). I find them a bit creepy. Anyone recognise what the heck I am talking about? Oh… and a closed wooden door in the wall of a walled garden, that does it even more…

    • Don QuiScottie says:
      February 28, 2013 at 11:54 pm

      Thinking more deeply… I think it may be that I feel that we are all living in a metaphorical walled garden, with things much greater outside of the walls (and I am not a ‘believer’ of any sort).

      Thanks for sending me down an interesting train of thought that I may use elsewhere.

      • CherryPie says:
        March 1, 2013 at 6:21 pm

        Walled gardens usually remind me of the inside of a house especially if it is planted up. It then reminds me of different rooms in a house.

        When I was younger some friends lived in a huge house across the road from where I lived. There parents bought a plot of land at the back of their already large garden. We used climb ontop of the shed and clamber over the wall onto a ladder on the other side. What was on the other side was essentially a walled (all be it) untidy garden. The adventure didn’t last long though, we were stopped from exploring!

        If there were lots of hiding place in the gardens I probably wouldn’t enjoy them so much.

        I am glad you found the walled garden inspiring.

  5. rusty duck says:
    March 1, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    I agree. Walled gardens are wonderful. And just as mysterious from the outside.. contemplating the secrets hidden within..

  6. liz says:
    March 1, 2013 at 6:21 pm

    Me too! I long for a walled garden.

  7. jamsodonnell says:
    March 1, 2013 at 8:23 pm

    I do like walled gardens

  8. London Caller says:
    March 2, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    That’s a huge garden!

  9. Astrid says:
    March 2, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    That must have been quite a place here. Love the wall and the flowers.