bluesonichd
TS Member
Restoration coming on nicely I noticed today
Next on the list hopefully the orangery. Will take quite a bit to get that back to how it was tho
The orangery is the similar looking but smaller glass house to the left, up some steps. Sadly its missing a whole dome and almost all the glass, bricked up windows instead!
Isn't the scaffolding on the pagoda to assess the extent of the work that is required, rather than to complete it?
Here's the one! (picture from this site)I'd probably know the building if I saw it but can't recall from memory, but I think I know which one you mean.
Beautiful! So many things to discover in those gardens. So many mysteries.
I can barely tolerate walking through the gardens these days though. M£rlin's cuts have seen off so many gardeners, I'd say for the past 4-5 years they've just been an overgrown unsightly mess.
If they have become a mess (I've got no idea as I haven't been in ages) then isn't that grounds to get the National Trust involved on the case? They're part of the heritage and I don't think they'd be too happy if they were in a state.
The Gardens looked as usual when I visited in the summer, but most the fountains seem broken, maybe because the water is off while the pagoda fountain is out of action (because all the fountains are gravity fed from the same source I fink). Havnt seen many of them for a long time though.
The gardens are awesome. These restorations are brilliant
The Pagoda Fountain isn't gravity fed, surely?