{"id":64026,"date":"2017-08-19T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/order-v-disorder-the-two-faces-of-a-magical-garden\/"},"modified":"2017-08-19T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T10:02:34","slug":"order-v-disorder-the-two-faces-of-a-magical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/order-v-disorder-the-two-faces-of-a-magical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Order v disorder: the two faces of a magical garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt is the clever use of topiary and riotous flower combinations at this Buckinghamshire farmhouse that make it such a thrillIt\u2019s a huge stand of Verbena bonariensis that offers the first clue about what kind of garden lies beyond the five-barred gate. The verbena\u2019s spindly stems topped with tiny lilac pompoms like a map of the stars have colonised one side of an ancient open-sided barn with an undulating roof of rust-red tiles. Above the froth, the eye is drawn to the horizontal line of a grapevine trained along the eaves and a tightly clipped specimen of potted topiary at one end. This tension between form and free-for-all is what makes retired farmer Marilyn Godden\u2019s garden such a thrill.When Godden and her husband moved into this Buckinghamshire farmhouse in 1980, there was little more than a 40ft tall laurel hedge and some mistreated box topiary to call a garden. It took three weeks to trim the riotous hedge, then she started work on a little bed under the kitchen window. Over the subsequent decades, Godden gradually turned the moisture-retaining clay-heavy pasture into a series of beautiful garden rooms, with the helpful addition of manure \u2013 freely available from her herds of beef cattle and sheep. The farmhouse has required much time and energy, too. \u201cThe house dates from 1692 but it\u2019s older than that \u2013 they did a refurb in 1692, the chimney and inglenook were Tudor,\u201d she explains. Continue reading…
\n
\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Order v disorder: the two faces of a magical garden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is the clever use of topiary and riotous flower combinations at this Buckinghamshire farmhouse...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-gEG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94539,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cutting-hedge-technology-topiary-in-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":64026,"position":0},"title":"Cutting hedge technology: topiary \u2013 in pictures","date":"July 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Darren Lerigo, a topiary designer and founder of Modern Mint talks through the techniques used to make the perfect garden Continue reading...\r \r Source : theguardian.com\r Read more...Cutting hedge technology: topiary \u2013 in pictures","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":69034,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-directors-cuttings-a-tour-of-terry-gilliams-garden\/","url_meta":{"origin":64026,"position":1},"title":"The director\u2019s cuttings: a tour of Terry Gilliam\u2019s garden","date":"October 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The film-maker\u2019s English garden reflects his cinematic eye \u2013 a fantasy of bell towers, cannons and galleonsLike his films, Terry Gilliam\u2019s garden is a mixture of the prosaic and the phantasmagorical. For a start, there\u2019s the church spire. \u201cWe were having a new kitchen done and one of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":111935,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hidden-treasures-a-statue-filled-canal-garden\/","url_meta":{"origin":64026,"position":2},"title":"Hidden treasures: a statue-filled canal garden","date":"October 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Gerry Dalton spent decades creating his extraordinary garden dedicated to folk art. Now he\u2019s gone, can it be saved? Photographs by Jill Mead. Words by Alys FowlerOn a thin strip of bank alongside the Grand Union Canal in west London, under the shadow of Ern\u00f6 Goldfinger\u2019s Trellick Tower, is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":162395,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-safe-haven-buckinghamshire-man-invites-americans-to-enter-house-raffle\/","url_meta":{"origin":64026,"position":3},"title":"\u2018A safe haven\u2019: Buckinghamshire man invites Americans to enter house raffle","date":"October 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Man hopes liberal Americans looking to move from Donald Trump\u2019s America will buy ticketsOn the edge of a Buckinghamshire village, autumn leaves fall around a quaint Victorian cottage nestled among ancient trees, while horses graze in a nearby paddock. It is a quintessentially English scene, but one its owner\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2788,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-marlow-buckinghamshire\/","url_meta":{"origin":64026,"position":4},"title":"Let\u2019s move to Marlow, Buckinghamshire","date":"August 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It was good enough for Percy and Mary Shelley\u2026What\u2019s going for it? Marlow is one of the original down-from-Londoners\u2019 honeypots. Something about its pretty, ickle historic streets, and the dreaminess of the Thames here, hung heavy with weeping willows and boatclubs, has for centuries pulled in those sick of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136483,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-castle-fit-for-royalty-could-be-yours-if-you-have-8m-to-spare\/","url_meta":{"origin":64026,"position":5},"title":"A castle \u2018fit for royalty\u2019 could be yours \u2013 if you have \u00a38m to spare","date":"May 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Rightmove publish list of fairy-tale castles that are available for purchase. First-time buyers needn\u2019t applyAre you looking for a detached property with lots of character and outside space? Does your checklist include a banquet hall, topiary lawn, secret garden and helipad?Well, you could be in luck. With the coronation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}