Lady Sandwich writes: As England is sweltering in a heat wave, I just hope our clematis have got nice cool roots, which is what they want. Clematis come from the temperate zones and don’t want over heating, originating, like so…
Lady Sandwich writes: I look round Mapperton gardens in late June and I see climbing and rambling roses all over the place, mostly out of control and definitely out of reach. There are some on the pergola – Emily Gray,…
The Pocket Handkerchief tree is dropping its hankies, like Beatrix Potter’s Mrs Tiggywinkle, at the top of the Wild Garden. This tree, davidia involucrata, is named after the famous Père David. Father Armand David (1826–1900, "Père David"), a French Vincentian missionary…
Lady Sandwich writes: The dogwood or the cornus are common small trees in our English landscape and planted a lot by motorways and in public parks. But two special dogwoods are looking magnificent in the Wild Garden: Cornus controversa variegata and…
What could be the connection between Mapperton and sandwiches? It's all explained in a little illustrated book called 'Sandwich Man' which is now available in our shop. In a word, it was John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who…
Lady Sandwich writes: Another rose this week, out at the moment. Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’, the yellow banksian rose, is an enormous climber from China introduced here in 1824. She’ll climb any large tree, clothing it in soft pale yellow spays…
Lady Sandwich writes: This week I’ll focus on just two things: a special rose in the Orangery and dandelions! The rose in the Orangery is rosa Niphetos, often called the Wedding Rose and very popular in 19th century wedding bouquets.…
The New York Times today published a long feature in the travel section covering the author's meander through West Dorset, from Lulworth Cove to Lyme Regis via the Cerne Abbas Giant and Mapperton Gardens. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/travel/on-englands-coast-thomas-hardy-made-his-world.html?_r=0#
Far From the Madding Crowd, the film adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hardy, is released today in cinemas across the UK. While Carey Mulligan plays the role of Bathsheba, the true star is of course Mapperton, which was turned into…
[av_image src='http://mapperton.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/01_H26GAR_1145068k.jpg' attachment='4722' attachment_size='full' align='center' animation='no-animation' link='' target='' styling='' caption='' font_size='' appearance=''][/av_image] Mapperton features in a long article published today in the Home section of the Sunday Times, which can found by following this link: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/homes_and_gardens/gardening/article1547769.ece