Visiting a grand estate garden
Today Cherry Ong is take on us to confab Hatley Castle in Victoria , British Columbia .
This landed estate garden at the Royal Roads University in Victoria , British Columbia , is brilliant , royal , and majestic . You may recognize the castle from the movies or TV , and I will forget it up to you to figure out where you ’ve attend it . The castle has an amazing vista of the Esquimalt Lagoon and the Olympic Mountains , I recollect the view of the formal Italian garden from the terrace of the rook is the beneficial of all .
The formal gardens were design in a very classical , traditional manner : frosty , geometrical lines with trim hedges .
I love the way this entrance frames the view and draw the heart down the path to the next gate in the distance .
The beautiful stonework of the castle create a outstanding contrast to the softer textures of the industrial plant .
The neat hedges and formal line counterpoint with the wilder , more informal growth of the plants around them .
Potted plants soften the lines of the architecture .
Cup and dish antenna vine(Cobaea scandens , zone 9–11 or as an annual ) is a fast - growing vine with beautiful , unusual blossom .
foliation in the shades of Bourgogne makes a spectacular statement .
pass peony(Paeoniahybrid , Zones 3–9 ) foliage line this walkway lead to an enticing spook corner .
A frothy sea ofdusty miller(Jacobaea maritima , Zones 7–10 or as an annual )
Here ’s a look at the palace itself .
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