Jardim Botânico Bosque Rodrigues Alves

Via here (Read more here)

Line, Form, Function

Via here

Transparent

Via here

The Orangerie

Via here (Photograph by Sebastian Schutyser)

Shedding

Nook

Via here

Location, location

What a setting...

Via here

Abundance

A small corner of the Rolling Greens Nursery....

Now in Costa Mesa, Culver City and Hollywood...Via here

The House that Time Forgot

Built for the Harpur family in 1703, Calke Abbey has remained virtually unaltered since the death of the last baronet, Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe in 1924. The last owner, Charles Harpur-Crewe, died suddenly in 1981, leading to crippling death duties (£8m of an estate worth £14m), and in 1985 the estate was transferred to the National Trust by his younger brother Henry Harpur-Crewe.

The National Trust presents Calke Abbey as an illustration of the English country house in decline. A massive amount of remedial work (but no restoration) has been done, so the decay of the building and its interiors has been halted, but not reversed. Before the National Trust's custody, the interior had basically remained untouched since the 1880's...

Gardener's Bothy

Via Flickr and Wikipedia (read more here)

Glass and Greenery...

Two of my most favorite combinations...

All via Greige (and here)

Lush

And gorgeous...

Via here

Buried...

Up to my eyeballs in a box-and-wrapping-paper tsunami (forgive the weird metaphors). Wish I was curled up in a corner of the conservatory below, with a thick book instead!

Sunroom by Axel Vervoordt via here

Pia Ulin

Love these images via photographer, Pia Ulin's site...

The perfect balcony...

Beautiful doors and simple, clean kitchen

Gleaming white floorboards

Via here

The Nymphaeum at Château de Wideville

We all need one of these in our garden...

(Nymphaeums, or garden grottos, first became popular in 16th century France and Italy, and were based on the Nymph sanctuaries of Ancient Greece).
Via here

Glass House II

Love the glass cloches too...

Via here

Verdant

Via here

Bunny's Greenhouse...

(Mellon, that is). To me, this is the ultimate in luxury - a room devoted to all things botanical, the real specimens just narrowly eclipsed by the trompe l’oeil murals by Fernand Renard...

 Read more here

Terrain

Snapped while salivating over the verdant abundance that is Terrain...

Tragically, since Tropical Storm Lee had decided to impose its Fist of Fury on Maryland and Pennsylvania, and since I was snapping on Hipsta, the poor light rendered most of my pictures inadequate, so check out Mia Widlake's post on the same subject to get a better idea of what we were gushing about...

Images by Philippa Berrington-Blew

The Green Room

"For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall,
You will find the tool- and potting-sheds which are the heart of all.”

- Rudyard Kipling

Top image from Neville Trickett, Middle images from Light Locations, bottom image from Water Monopoly.
Contributor: Philippa Berrington-Blew