Talk:Hestercombe House
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I think there is an chronological problem in the gardens section, it is stated "The gardens were laid out by Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens for Coplestone Warre Bamfylde" - as Coplestone Warre Bamfylde, died 1791, I don't see how Lutyens and Jeckyl could have designed the gardend for him. Giano 16:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- This si taken from the English Heritage listing of the gardens at Images of England entry for Garden walls, paving and steps on the South front of Hestercombe House, but I will reword to overcome this.— Rod talk 17:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I remember that the planted plat at Hestercombe— in the form of a square with a saltire criss-cross, I remember— was replanted in the 1970s (?) according to a surviving Gertrude Jekyll planting plan— by the Somerset Volunteer Fire Brigade!— a memorable and enviable mark of the general level of culture in the UK, I thought as an American. I was introduced there to Bergenia, which a gardener of Miss Jekyll's generation, perhaps Elwes, dubbed "pigsqueak". --Wetman 07:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
