I can’t believe that I have reached the final new folly description in the garden blog. I have never run a marathon but I can imagine as one approaches the finish line, a mix of exhaustion, euphoria and anticipation surges through one’s veins. This about sums up my emotional state as April 1st approaches. Being […]
Posts Tagged ‘follies’
2 Weeks to Go in the Folly Frenzy Countdown: The Needle’s Eye
Posted in Garden, tagged Bob's Crane, floating docks, follies, Follies exhibition, garden follies, John Carr, Needle's Eye, ponds, Winterthur, Winterthur Garden on March 22, 2018 | 2 Comments »
The Making of a Folly: The Ottoman Tent
Posted in Garden, tagged follies, Follies exhibition, follies garden follies, Hestercombe, Ottoman Tent, Painshill, Raj Tents, tent on February 22, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
If you Google “garden follies”, you are treated to some great images from around the world. Often these follies are inspired by classical architecture, sometimes they are whimsical, but rarely seen is a tent folly. Perhaps because a tent by nature is ephemeral. Many of the tent follies that are in gardens are much more […]
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Posted in Garden, tagged Adam Jenkins Conservation, Chinese House, Chinese Parlor, Chinese Pavilion, Chinese Wallpaper, Elk Creek Cabinetry, follies, Follies exhibition, Hippocampus, Port Royal Entrance, Stowe on February 15, 2018 | 7 Comments »
Week 7 of the Folly Frenzy Countdown! Featuring: the Chinese Pavilion. I am very fortunate to have been able to do some folly reconnaissance in England two summers ago. It was a whirlwind tour of 18 gardens in 16 days and it was pure heaven! All but 2 of the gardens featured at least one […]
The Making of a Folly: The Green Folly
Posted in Garden, Garden Programs, tagged exhibitions, follies, Follies exhibition, Green Folly, Winterthur, Winterthur Garden on February 8, 2018 | 8 Comments »
We have entered the countdown to the April 1st opening of the Winterthur Garden’s first outdoor exhibition, Follies: Architectural Whimsy in the Garden. It has been a day that I have been dreading for a while but as it moves ever so closer, the anxiety has lessened, being replaced by a mix of anticipation and […]
Fall Folly Frenzy
Posted in Enchanted Woods, Garden, Garden Programs, tagged #gardenfolly, Chinese Folly, follies, Follies exhibition, Garden Folly, Gothic Tower, Green Folly, Mirrored Folly, Needle's Eye, Neoclassical Folly, Ottoman Tent, Winterthur Garden on October 5, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The Winterthur Garden is busy preparing for its first outdoor exhibition, Follies: Architectural Whimsy in the Garden, opening April 1, 2018. We are creating 7 new follies, or garden structures, that one might find in an historic landscape. These new features will be threaded between the follies that H. F. du Pont placed in his […]
Follies in the Winterthur Garden
Posted in Garden, Garden History, Garden Programs, tagged follies on June 20, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Garden Insider: What’s a Folly? Wednesday, June 21, 2017 – 11:30 am – Rotunda* In 2018 the Winterthur Garden will be hosting its first outdoor exhibition, entitled “Follies: Architectural Whimsy in the Garden.” Not sure just what that will look like? Join Carol Long, Curator of the Garden, to find out more. “Garden Insider” is […]