Stourhead Garden – View from the Grotto
Stourhead is one of the earliest and most influential gardens in England. Designed as a landscape garden from 1742 onwards, it uses many ideas from Italian and French landscape painting of this time. Basically, it can be seen as a painting turned into a landscape.
A bridge, a grotto, a cottage and a temple, a Gothic High Cross and even a replica of The Pantheon are grouped in a picturesque way around a landscaped lake.
The Temple of Apollo is slightly elevated
In addition, there is the horticultural design of Stourhead, which compliments the extensive deciduous tree population (lots of colour in autumn!) with rich collections of rhododendrons and azaleas. The garden radiates in all conceivable colours, especially in the spring.
The basic idea is that you should never see the same thing twice when walking through the garden. A path which is usually taken anti-clockwise leads around the lake and opens up new breathtaking views at every corner.
The manor house is slightly above the garden and is also open to the public.
The house and garden have been owned by the National Trust since 1946.
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Manor House and Parkland
Stourhead Garden (Wiltshire)
Stourhead Garden (Wiltshire) – the bridge was simply built with visual aesthetics in mind
Stourhead Garden is especially magnificent in spring when the mighty rhododendrons are in bloom
It isn’t just the lake and bridge, but also a temple, that are laid out in a picturesque way
Stourhead Garden
The manor house above Stourhaed Garden
The manor house in Stourhead from the garden
Impressionen aus Stourhead Garden
Impressionen aus Stourhead Garden
Impressions of Stourhead Garden
Stourhead Garden also includes a replica temple
Don’t forget, there is an extra grotto
Grotto with a fountain and deity of course
This Gothic house was also specially built in Stourhead. A hermit (who was paid for it) lived here to educate the visitors.
Stourhead with The Pantheon in the background
Stourhead
Stourhead – flowering Rhododendrons
Flower detail in Stourhead
This is also part of Stourhead Country Park
Stourhead
Hidden paths in Stourhead
Magnificent Rhododendrons in Stourhead
Stourhead
Mighty Trees in Stourhead Garden
VIDEO: Stourhead Garden in the very early morning light from above (by Drone Services Dorset)
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