Gardens
Barrington Court is noted for its Arts and crafts-style gardens for which garden designer Gertrude Jekyll provided planting plans, which are being used to restore the gardens, laid out in 1917 by J. E. Forbes, of the partnership Forbes & Tate, for Lieut-Col. A. Arthur Lyle, in a series of walled rooms that include a white garden, a rose and iris garden and a lily garden.
The kitchen garden provides produce for the property's restaurant located in the adjacent Strode House; this includes all types of fruit and vegetables. The local school at Barrington and Ilton also have a vegetable plot where the children plant, tend and cook the produce; the walls are also strewn with apple, pear and plum trees.
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Jekyll-inspired white garden at Barrington Court
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Espaliered apple tree at Barrington Court
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Water lily in a pool at Barrington Court
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Famous quotes containing the word gardens:
“the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)
“These are the Gardens of the Desert, these
The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,
And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned—”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“Typical of Iowa towns, whether they have 200 or 20,000 inhabitants, is the church supper, often utilized to raise money for paying off church debts. The older and more conservative members argue that the “House of the Lord” should not be made into a restaurant; nevertheless, all members contribute time and effort, and the products of their gardens and larders.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)