On the south side of the house, Kinross designed four formal garden terraces still planted in Edwardian style. A geometric terrace is now stocked with floribunda roses and hostas, To one side is a small grass terrace, edged by four large stone vases. Below it, through a wrought-iron gate with griffins adorning the piers, is a tennis lawn, and below that, a croquet lawn. There is a stone dovecote on the far side of the elevated terrace provided for.
The lower terraces are surrounded by a bank of rhododendrons down to the lake, smoothly achieving the transition from nineteenth-century formal gardens to eighteenth-century picturesque landscape.*
The lower terrace and the lake can be viewed in my previous post.
*From the Manderston guidebook
Marvelous gardens!!!
how neat and outstanding these gardens are !
i liked the sculpture too friend!
I am glad you enjoyed the gardens
Just imagine the labour going into keeping these gardens looking like this, Cherie
Very labour intensive!
As you know, I often say “Leave it to the Dutch.” But I also often say “Leave it to the Brits/Scots” when I see something like this, Cherry.
English gardens, have a typical style to them
Looks beautiful. – the terrace gardens remind me of the one at Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight.
I have not yet visited the Isle of Wight.
i love the front gate with the dancing cherubs on the pillars Cherie…
the individual gardens are superb…
does one have to where a tuxedo to get into the Manderston Formal Garden?
….peter:)
A tuxedo is not required whilst visiting the garden, but you wouldn’t be out of place if you wore one there