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Cragside – The Rock Garden

CherryPie — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:26:32 +0000

Information about the rock garden can be found in this previous post of mine.

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 19:51:43 +0000

Come forth into the light of things,
Let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:07:01 +0000

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

The Rock Gardens at Cragside

CherryPie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:53:26 +0000

The rock gardens extend all around the house and cover 4.5 acres. Most of the rock has been man-laid, using fell sandstone from the surrounding moors. This garden had become badly overgrown and since 1988 has been gradually restored, with the work still ongoing.

There are three distinct areas. The oldest, of the 1870s, north and west of the house, it is most unusual, with an almost ‘tumbling’ effect; this may be the last surviving example of its type. The two cascades in the design bring into the garden the movement and sound of water. Below, the lower west rock garden of the mid-1880s is more ordered in construction. South and east of the house, a large band of natural rock is enhanced with late 1880s-early 1890s pavement and strata-style rock.*

*From Cragside Garden Leaflet.