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Garden History Society & Historic Royal Palaces
MA 24
"A Garden in Homage to Le Notre"
I love this garden. Reflecting the style of the acclaimed French gardener Andre Le Notre, rows of tall lollipop bay trees frame an extraordinary clipped box parterre in the shape of a spiral labyrinth with neat fountains emerging from the low boudary hedges. All guides the eye slowly but surely to the focal point of the garden, a large rectangular mirror, slanted to reflect the curving bough and foliage from the plane tree overhead - set against blue sky. Great.
--Graham Rice
Gold Medal Designer: Tom Stuart-Smith
Sponsor: Laurent-Perrier and Harpers & Queen in association with Merrill Lynch for the Garden History Society and Historic Royal Palaces
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