Gardenvisit.com The Garden Guide

Book: Designs for the pavilion at Brighton, 1808
Chapter: Designs For The Pavilion At Brighton

Perpetual gardening

Previous - Next

It has been beautifully observed by Lord Bacon, "That in the royal ordering of gardens, there should be a garden for every month in the year;" but, in my humble endeavours to gratify the royal commands, it would be my pride to make a garden which should not be affected by any variations of season, or soil, or weather, or situation; and thus form a perpetual garden, enriched with the production of every climate. "Hic VER assiduum, atque alienis mensibus �STAS." [Here blooms perpetual spring, and summer shines In months not hers.]