Lady Salisbury Garden Designer
Lady salisbury 82 has put her stamp on a tudor style courtyard for a millionaire s medieval town house in london as well as on a multi purpose street front garden americans would call it a.
Lady salisbury garden designer. Lady salisbury now 86 took a particular interest in restoring the elaborate gardens on both properties. The dowager marchioness of salisbury who has died aged 94 was regarded as the high priestess of historic garden design best known for her triumphant restoration of the gardens at hatfield. The garden which covers more than an acre is the largest show garden ever created and was designed and planted by staff and students from capel manor college london s only land skills based college.
To be asked to design a garden for an elizabethan palace was an enjoyable challenge. Lady salisbury has been a gardener since as a child in the 1930s she cultivated tiny patches of her parents gardens in ireland and the west of england. She was just following her instincts she says honed from plotting little gardens as a child.
The grande dame of green a visit with the dowager marchioness of salisbury one of england s most revered garden designers.