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The Cottage, Badminton RP/1/1/2/7

Russell Page1966

Garden Museum

Garden Museum
London, United Kingdom

Scope and Content: A pencil design on tracing paper dated 1966, marked ‘Preliminary sketch plan for a walled garden at the Cottage Badminton, scale 1/8" = 1 foot’. The plan shows the walled flower garden which leads off the kitchen garden. Suggestions for planting and colour schemes are included: mainly pink and white with no blue flowers. Roses, peonies, hollyhocks and tulips are among the flowers mentioned. Page also notes that the paths will not be symmetrical due to the positioning of the central axis.

The Badminton Estate, in the Gloucestershire countryside, has been home to the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century. Here, at the Cottage, Page helped to create a series of elegant yet relaxed garden rooms. His work there spanned two decades, and the final designs were among his last.

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