Posts Tagged ‘England’
Stowe Landscape Garden, Buckinghamshire, England
I’ve always been in love with gardens. I grew up in what were called garden apartments, in a complex called Glen Oaks, in the area of Queens known as Kew Gardens. But although there were oaks, there were no glens and no gardens to be seen. I loved trees, plants, and flowers from an early…
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Jane Austen’s Bath, England
The formal and elegant city of Bath is an exquisite example of a planned city. If “city” and “jumbled” go together for you, a city as harmonious as Bath will take a bit of getting used to. Built along the Avon river and its gentle slopes, white and cream buildings form grand avenues and crescents beyond the town…
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