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Downton Abbey fan continue to be captivated by the British drama ’s rich storytelling and arresting visuals . Beyond the princely interior and spellbind plotlines , the show ’s gardens stay a highlight , offering an enchanting backcloth to the dramatic play and love story . shoot at the majestic Highclere Castle , the meticulously sustain garden and sprawling 1,000 - Akko estate bring lush authenticity to the Edwardian - era setting . From trellis rose to perfectly snip topiaries , these gardens inspire ambition of timeless elegance and ravisher .
The monk ’s garden & methamphetamine house . Photo by : Highclere Castle .
According to writer Julian Fellowes , he compose the series with Highclere Castle & Gardens in idea . As he says , he wanted a setting that prove to the era ’s soaring optimism . Highclere , with its stately elegance and telling history , was absolutely cast . The estate was work up in 1842 by Charles Berry , who also work up the Houses of Parliament , and the gardens were designed by Lancelot Capability Brown , a preeminent British landscape house decorator who excel in cultivate natural beauty in nation estates . The estate ’s current owners , Lord and Lady Carnarvon , have preserved Brown ’s aesthetic as the garden has grown over the years .
Today , the abundant rhododendrons , azalea , and acers seem very common place . But in the other 1900s , these plants — spell from the Americas , India , and the Far East — would have signified wealthiness and horticultural wherewithall . Fruit trees were a pop way to keep the kitchen filled with treat .
lunacy , or architectural ornamentation mean to adorn and not inevitably allow for any other use , were popular in 18th C British gardens . This pillared lunacy forebode Jackdaw ’s Castle was work up in 1743 as a vantage full stop from which to view the Castle .
With their natural grasses and unseamed flowerbeds , Brown ’s desgins are sometimes call " gardenless . " In the spirit of the original purpose , the acres ’s current Carnarvons recently show an field to the south of the Castle as a wild flower hayfield .
The White Border Garden , which leads from the Monks ' Garden to the Secret Garden , include white-hot hydrangeas , roses , agapanthus , and ornamental pears .
The Monks ’ Garden was originally crop in the twelfth century , when the acres was reside by the bishops of Winchester . Today , its ecclesiastic chronicle is conserve & adjust : While climbing roses and penstamons have replaced many of the 61 fruit tree record in 1218 , espaliered medlar and pear trees still climb the ancient wall amidst the yew topiary .
In the Monks ' Garden , a greenhouse called the Peach House develop salmon pink and fragrant roses for the Castle . Astrantia , glum lobelia , and snapdragons grow aboard .
century of cedar trees , institute over 200 hundred years ago , are among the many trees on the grounds . Some were acquire from seedlings given to the 1st Earl of Carnarvon by a cousin , the Earl of Pembroke .
Tree species let in non - native and aboriginal English species , such as this Weeping Beech ( Fagus sylvatica"pendula " ) .
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