Cultural historian George Townsend looks at the Arts-and-Crafts inspired naturalistic bathing areas that blurred the line between ornament and recreation and lists Great Ambrook as one of Britains’s best.
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The team at The Italian Garden welcomed Camilla Bassett-Smith from Alan Titchmarsh’s Gardening Club in April this year to explore the garden.
This 10-minute feature gives a good overview of the history and story of the garden, its main features and some of the volunteers’ achievements.
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Western Morning News - ATHWENNA IRONS
A SECRET garden in South Devon that served as a safe space for gay men in the early 20th century before being ‘lost’ for decades is hosting an exhibition that brings together contemporary art and academic research.
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Frances Mason, MA student in Illustration at Falmouth University, chose for her final project “Graham’s Garden” to develop a series of illustrations in the garden as a means of exploring the research question “Can illustration create a better future by peeling away the layers of the past?”
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Our resident photographer Vicki Gardner is interviewed by the Garden Media Guild on how the Italian Garden led her to specialise in garden photography.
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The Italian Garden House is an astonishingly beautiful, luxurious rural retreat. Discreetly located within the original walled Italian Garden for Great Ambrook House….
Read the full Muddy Stilettos review of The Italian Garden House
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After the press announcement of our £188,000 National Lottery Heritage Fund grant award, BBC Spotlight visited to learn more about the garden’s history and restoration plans, and meet some of the team bringing the garden back to life.
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The Italian Garden at Great Ambrook has been awarded a £188,050 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a 3-year project to restore the garden and broaden its contributions to the local community.
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Arthur Graham, born in Tulse Hill, Surrey on 29th July 1871, 150 years ago today, was the owner of Great Ambrook and the creator of the Italian Garden.
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Kim Partridge vividly remembers the day she first set foot in The Italian Garden. “The sun was setting, it was late in the afternoon on a warm, still summer’s evening and it was incredible - the garden revealed itself to us in a way we couldn’t imagine.”
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The garden at Great Ambrook is so often referred to as ‘unique’ and so it appears to be, as well as extraordinary, with its Italianate style hidden in the midst of rolling Devonshire countryside. Just how extraordinary can be set against the era of Arthur Graham’s life and the influences to which he must have been exposed.
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The Italian Garden at Great Ambrook, which has been described as Devon’s answer to the Lost Gardens of Heligan, has been awarded a £48,900 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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At Great Ambrook in Devon, Stephanie Berry and Kim Chapman have undertaken to restore a long-forgotten Italian-themed garden imbued with the hedonistic mood of the early 1900s.
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