Gardenvisit.com The Garden Guide

Book: Gardening tours by J.C. Loudon 1831-1842
Chapter: London and Suburban Residences in 1839

Redleaf garden components

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The garden scenery at Redleaf consists of a kitchen-garden, an orchard, an English flower-garden, a Dutch flower-garden, and an anomalous description of flower-garden, which may be called the rock-garden. This last garden constitutes by far the most singular feature of the artificial scenery of the place, and is totally different from anything else of the kind in England. The idea of forming it seems to have arisen from the existence of a ledge of rocks in another part of the grounds, and from the abundance of rock, of a kind easily quarried (red sandstone), under most parts of the surface. This part of the grounds at Redleaf is so original in character, that it is difficult to convey a correct idea of it without larger engravings than this work admits of; but we shall nevertheless make the attempt.