In 1873, Markham Nesfield ( 1842-74 ), ( son of the better known garden designer William Andrews Nesfield ) designed the formal terrace next to the house for Sir John Croft . Unfortunately nothing remains now of his detailed planting plans.
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A concept more than a planting plan, the potager garden itself is a kind of all-inclusive horticultural soup, prettily mingling vegetables, herbs, ornamentals, and even fruit trees into a single plot, and breaking down old ideas about compartmentalization.
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Begin by drawing a bold grid over your planting plan; on the plan below ( A ) we've divided the drawing of a rectangular bed 20 feet long and 4 feet wide into a grid of blocks 5 feet long by 2 feet wide.
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The wing added by Lutyens was since demolished, but a sunken basin opposite its former " New Room " survives, and surrounding gardens by Gertrude Jekyll adjoining it were later carefully recreated from Jekyll's planting plans, rediscovered in a drawer at Buckhurst.
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He also received detailed planting plans to fill his borders from Ellen Biddle Shipman, whom he had come to know through her gardening at Cornish, and whom he had instructed in presentation drawings by a draftsman from his own office, then sent to Grosse Pointe, Michigan to plant one of his designs.
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The Colonial Dames of America purchased the site in 1924 and in 1939 opened it to the public as the Abigail Adams Smith Museum . ( Abigail Adams Smith and her husband William had owned the property briefly in 1795 but did not live on site . ) The planting plan for the Abigail Adams Smith Museum was by New York landscape designer Alice Recknagel Ireys.
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In addition to printed books, there is a collection of manuscripts and drawings covering the same range of topics a late 17th-century planting plan for an Italian garden; Hans Puechfeldner s fine images of late 17th-century mannerist gardens; a number of paintings by oriental artists executed for western patrons to record discoveries of new plants made during the expansion of Europe into the East.
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This was the era of the automobile, and in her designs Farrand applied principles learned earlier from Frederick Law Olmsted's drives at the Arnold Arboretum and the Biltmore Estate of George Washington Vanderbilt II . John D . Rockefeller, Jr . sought out and funded Farrand to design planting plans for subtle carriage roads at Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine, near her Reef Point home ( c . 1930 ).
