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A few nice Garden images I found:

jap_garden_maple_tree




Image by ahp_ibanez

Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, OR

hi guys,
thanks for all the comments! about the photo... its a japanese maple tree in the japanese garden of portland OR, shot position will probably be the same for anyone since its along the pathway and enclosed within a low metal fence, you can't get any closer , behind or to either side of it unless you go inside the enclosure, my shot angle was from the ground using the low fence to support the camera, the low height was to get maximum vertical foliage coverage, lens was11mm wide, post-process (guilty as charged... but just a little) was done obviously :) - reduced red/orange lightcast by the red/orange foliage which made the ground/rock/foliage in front greener, this also made the furry moss on the branches popped out; a bit of channel saturation was done on magenta/green to the foliage to add contrast with red/orange; curves for overall contrast then high-pass filter sharpening and voila...

now, you should really check this out:
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Leading you Down the Garden Path at Hidcote Manor Garden!




Image by antonychammond

Hidcote Manor Garden is one of England's great gardens. It was the life's passion of one man, self-taught gardener Lawrence Johnston who created his 'garden of rooms' here.

The creator of Hidcote (it's his statue you are looking at!)

Lawrence Johnston was born in Paris of American parents. He came to England to study at Cambridge University.

After graduating, he fought for the British Army. He was so badly wounded in the First World War that he was laid out for burial. His colleagues realised that he was still alive only after he moved slightly.

In 1907, Johnston's mother, Mrs Gertrude Winthrop, bought the Hidcote Manor Estate. Johnston came to live at Hidcote and soon took to gardening.

Developing a masterpiece

Johnston spent 41 years creating what would become one of England's most influential 20th-century gardens. He began work in 1907, becoming interested in making a garden out of the fields surrounding the house.

The garden was developed in the fashionable Arts & Crafts style: a series of outdoor 'rooms' offering surprises and discoveries at each turn.

By the 1920s, the transformation was well under way. Johnston employed 12 full-time gardeners to help shape his 10-acre creation. He always took advice and read extensively on the work of eminent gardeners, such as Gertrude Jekyll.

'A garden of rooms'

Johnston designed Hidcote as a series of outdoor 'rooms', which combine sensuous masses of colour with traditional garden crafts such as topiary. Each room has its own distinct atmosphere and character.

The hedges that divide the rooms sprung up due to the plot's exposed aspect. Johnston planted hedges of holly, beech, hornbeam and yew for shelter and structure.

Exotic plants

As well as a gardener, Lawrence Johnston was an accomplished plantsman. The range of plants he used was huge.

In a never-ending quest, he secured rare and exotic species by sponsoring and taking part in plant hunting expeditions. Trips took him to the Alps, Kenya and South Africa. He also plant-swapped with the Australians and the Japanese.

The expeditions introduced over 40 new plants to cultivation in the UK, many of which bear Johnston's name. He was awarded three Awards of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society for his plant hunting achievements.

The National Trust learns to garden

In 1948, Lawrence Johnston retired to Serre de la Madone, his home on the French Riviera where he had created another spectacular garden.

Hidcote Manor Garden came to the National Trust, the first property acquired specifically for the garden.

While carrying forward the spirit of Lawrence Johnston, Hidcote has changed over time since the 1930s. Lack of funding has led to areas of the garden becoming overgrown and many of Johnston's tender plants being replaced.

'This place is a jungle of beauty. I cannot hope to describe it in words, for indeed it is an impossible thing to reproduce the shape, colour, depth and design of such a garden through the poor medium of prose'

- Vita Sackville-West

For more information about Hidcote Manor Garden, please visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/...


Hidcote Manor Garden in the Cotswolds




Image by UGArdener

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Hidcote Manor Garden is a landscape garden located on the outskirts of the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England and owned by the National Trust.
Created by American-born horticulturalist Major Lawrence Johnston, it is often described as one of England's great "Arts and Crafts" gardens with its collection of rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders.
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Johnston's mother, Gertrude Winthrop, purchased the Hidcote Manor Estate in 1907. The estate was located within a part of England with strong connections to the then-burgeoning Arts and Crafts movement.
Johnston soon became interested in turning the fields around the estate into a garden. By 1910 Johnston had begun to lay out the key features of the garden and by the 1920s Johnston had twelve full-time gardeners working for him.
The garden was acquired by the National Trust in 1947.
Johnston's influences in creating his garden include such luminaries as Alfred Parsons, Gertrude Jekyll, and others. In 2007 a garden designed by Chris Beardshaw that drew its inspiration from Johnson's Hicote was constructed at the Chelsea Flower Show.
The garden takes the form of a series of "rooms" of various characters created by the creative use of hedges and walls. These rooms are linked together, and some by imaginative vistas and furnished with topiaries. Some have ponds and fountains, and all are planted with flowers in bedding schemes. They surround the Tudor manor house, and there are numerous outhouses and a kitchen garden. The property is close to Kiftsgate Court Gardens, which is built on the very edge of the Cotswolds escarpment.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidcote_Manor_Gard en

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