Comments on: Queen Eleanor’s Garden http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Sat, 02 May 2026 21:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46126 CherryPie Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:29:17 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46126 It is rather cute :-) It is rather cute :-)

]]> By: London Caller http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46122 London Caller Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:13:19 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46122 I actually quite like that little garden gate. Rather Norman! I actually quite like that little garden gate.
Rather Norman!

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46093 CherryPie Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:10:33 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46093 It has a certain something about it :-) It has a certain something about it :-)

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46092 CherryPie Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:09:36 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46092 The garden is small but delightful. I hope you have a wonderful weekend too :-) The garden is small but delightful.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend too :-)

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46091 CherryPie Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:07:24 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46091 PS: The steps in the top photograph lead up to the former Peninsular Barracks and the home of Winchester's military museums. PS: The steps in the top photograph lead up to the former Peninsular Barracks and the home of Winchester’s military museums.

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46090 CherryPie Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:05:13 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46090 I need to work on getting back to visit and linger in 'more' gardens next year. Tomorrow I am hoping to visit something Knightly :-) I need to work on getting back to visit and linger in ‘more’ gardens next year. Tomorrow I am hoping to visit something Knightly :-)

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46089 CherryPie Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:02:48 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46089 The background information may interest you :-) http://www3.hants.gov.uk/greathall/queen-eleanors-garden.htm Queen Eleanor’s Garden is a re-creation, by Dr Sylvia Landsberg, of an enclosed medieval garden and is named after Queen Eleanor of Provence and her daughter-in-law Queen Eleanor of Castile, who would have walked there and used it as their private retreat. In medieval times gardens offered pleasure, repose and refreshment to the senses as well as food and medicine. Queen Eleanor’s Garden is an accurate example of such a garden and features turf seats, bay hedges, a fountain, tunnel arbour and many beautiful herbs and flowers of the time. Many of the plants used in medieval gardens had symbolic meanings, representing personal or religious virtues, including holly, ivy and bay, which represented the ideal of faithfulness, and roses, columbine, and strawberry plants which represented aspects of Christian spiritual philosophy. Today’s small peaceful garden oasis was opened by the Queen Mother as part of the Domesday 900 celebrations. The background information may interest you :-)

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/greathall/queen-eleanors-garden.htm

Queen Eleanor’s Garden is a re-creation, by Dr Sylvia Landsberg, of an enclosed medieval garden and is named after Queen Eleanor of Provence and her daughter-in-law Queen Eleanor of Castile, who would have walked there and used it as their private retreat.

In medieval times gardens offered pleasure, repose and refreshment to the senses as well as food and medicine. Queen Eleanor’s Garden is an accurate example of such a garden and features turf seats, bay hedges, a fountain, tunnel arbour and many beautiful herbs and flowers of the time.

Many of the plants used in medieval gardens had symbolic meanings, representing personal or religious virtues, including holly, ivy and bay, which represented the ideal of faithfulness, and roses, columbine, and strawberry plants which represented aspects of Christian spiritual philosophy.

Today’s small peaceful garden oasis was opened by the Queen Mother as part of the Domesday 900 celebrations.

]]> By: James Higham http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46088 James Higham Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:30:30 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46088 Love that tunnel, pergola thingy. Love that tunnel, pergola thingy.

]]> By: Caroline Irwin http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46087 Caroline Irwin Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:24:38 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46087 What a delightful garden - lovely photos and I love the tunnel in the last picture :) Have a wonderful weekend. What a delightful garden – lovely photos and I love the tunnel in the last picture :) Have a wonderful weekend.

]]> By: Amfortas http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/11/03/queen-eleanors-garden-2/comment-page-1/#comment-46086 Amfortas Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:03:50 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=17766#comment-46086 I do like an old garden, especially one with such an air of history and mystery about it. I do like an old garden, especially one with such an air of history and mystery about it.

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