Smithson, Robert (1938-73): Spiral Jetty, Great

Salt Lake, Utah 18 Smythson, Robert (1535-1614) 212 Snow, Peter Frederick Briscoe (1927-2008):

‘Homage to Bonnard’ 20 snowdrop 53, 55, 72, 73, 242, 257, 272, 276 Soames, Camilla Rose ‘Milly’ 189 Soane, Sir John (1753-1857) 45 Soane Museum (Sir John Soane’s Museum),

Holborn, London 227 Somerset, Caroline SEE Beaufort, Caroline

Jane Somerset, Duchess of Somerset, David SEE Beaufort, David Robert

Somerset, 11th Duke of Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of

(1406-55) 203 Somerset, Elizabeth SEE Beaufort, Elizabeth

Somerset, Duchess of Somerset House, London 203, 206, 209 Somerset Levels 15 Special Plants Nursery, Chippenham, Wilts. 157 Spencer House, London 31 spider lily 159 Stachys 199 stalactites 51, 212, 214, 228 standing stones 19 Stanhope, Co. Durham: cinema 100 Steadman, (Percy) Keith Buchanan (1912-95) 119 Stefanidis, John 97 Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (1850-94) 10 Stevie ‘Wonder’ 79 stinkhorn 12 Stipa 179 Stoke Park, Bristol 28 Stokes, Martin 18 Stourhead, Wilts.: river god 167, 174 strawberry 13 strawberry tree SEE Arbutus; Himalayan s.t.

SEE Cornus capitata Strong, Sir Roy Colin 12; The Renaissance

Garden in England 25, 139, 203, 209 Stuart, Princess Elizabeth SEE Elizabeth Stuart, Princess stumps 174 Sturridge, Fabia 25, 39 style Normand, le 31, 37 summerhouse 25; rustic s. 13 Sunday Times 65 Surrey 18 Suttons’ Seeds, Reading 15 Suzhou, Classical Gardens of, Jiangsu, China 49 swallows 120, 139 sweet chestnut avenues 83; s.c. roots 29, 77, 80 sweet pea 120, 136, 196, 246, 265, 266, 273, 280;

s.p. ‘Cupani’ 87; s.p. ‘Houghton Blue’ 87 sweet rocket SEE Hesperis matronalis sweet William 119 swifts 120 Swinbrook, Oxon. 115; ‘hons’ cupboard’ 115 Swindon, Wilts. 242 sycamore 71, 189, 195, 196, 273 Symphyotrichum turbinellum 279 Talleyrand (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-

Périgord) (1754-1838) 227 Talybont-on-Usk, Powys 11 Tamar, River, Cornwall/Devon 269, 281 Tangier, Morocco 25 Tanner, Robin (1904-88): ‘Christmas’14 Tarot Garden (Giardino dei Tarocchi),

Garavicchio, Tuscany, Italy 12 Taxodium distichum 165, 167 Taylor, Annie Glennah 119 Taylor, Dora 119, 127 Taylor, Palma Xona 116 Team 4 architectural partnership (Norman

Foster, Richard Rogers et al.) 241 teazel 259 ‘telehandler’ machine 55 Temple of Concord, Agrigento, Sicily 73 Tenniel, Sir John (1820-1914) 10 terriers, West Highland 165 Test, River, Hants. 174 Thalictrum 278; T. flavum 279; T.

rochebruneanum 287 Thamesmead, S.E. London 12

Thompson, Eric Norman (1929-82): The

Magic Roundabout 10 Thurley, Simon 73 Tiddy Doll 227, 230 Tiddy Dols Eating House, Hertford Street,

Mayfair, London 227 Tilia cordata 97 tobacco 65 Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973) 10 Tom the groom 79 tomatoes 241 topiary 61, 136, 139, 140, 184, 184 topsoil 276 Tours-sur-Marne, Champagne, Marne 16 Travertine stone 98 Trebeck Street, Mayfair 230 tree moving 61, 189, 195; t. spade 189, 195, 195 Trematon Castle, Saltash, Cornwall 269-84;

aerial view 281; bailey walls 269, 273, 284; bathing pavilion 275; battlements 281; borders 269, 273, 278; cannons, green oak 276, 280; ‘cove’ 275; creek 273; croquet lawn 269, 276; curtain wall 269; double border 276; double-walled garden 273; drive 276; entrance 269; front door 278; gatehouse 269, 276, 284, 287; glasshouse 269; keep 283, 284; kitchen garden fence 283; medieval doorways 283; mount 273, 276; motte 269, 276, 284, 287; Norah Lindsay border 278; obelisk 278, 280; orchard 269, 276, 283, 287; peony border 280; pool garden 275; ramparts 272, 273, 276; regency villa 269; Sally Port 269, 276; stables 281; steps 278; terrace 276; tunnel 269; tunnel path 279; vegetable patch 269; walls 279; wooden greenhouse 269 Trivia (Roman goddess) 55 Tropaeolum speciosum 279 Trotton, W. Sussex 174 troughs 120, 159 trulli, Puglia, Italy 18 tufa 49, 49, 57, 167, 174 tulip tree 173 Tulipa (tulip) 119, 276; T. ‘Abu Hassan’ 248; T.

‘Ballerina’ 248; T. ‘China Pink’ 242; T. ‘Jan Reus’ 248; T. sprengeri 179; striped Dutch seventeenth-century t. 230; T. sylvestris 119, 276 Turner, Anthony 115, 119, 120 Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) 64 Turrell, James 83 typeface, ‘Showman’-style 184 Uffington White Horse, Oxon. 11 Umayyad caliphs 227 umbellifers 280 Uvedale, Dr Robert (1642-1722) 87 valerian 53, 64, 65, 249, 259; white v. 40 Valpolicella wine 19 Van Dyck, Sir Anthony (1599-1641) 203, 209 Vaughan, Keith 21 Vaux-le-Vicomte, Seine et Marne 87 vegetables 119, 136, 196, 241 Verbascum 129, 133 Verbena bonariensis 119, 195 Verey, Rosemary Isabel Baird (1918-2001) 19,

21, 71, 79 Verity, Judith 26 Verity, Simon 26, 27, 28, 181, 182, 184, 185 Verity, Tom 167, 174 vermiculation on oak piers 209 Via Julia, Glos. 61 Viburnum 172; V. × carlcephalum 53, 275; V.

carlesii 120, 275; V. rhytidophyllum 273 Vicary, David (1926-95) 9, 12, 14, 19, 19, 20,

21, 23, 25, 25, 28, 45, 72 Victoria and Albert Museum, South

Kensington, London: Henry Cole Wing 184 Villa Cetinale, Tuscany: plum garden 87 Villa Demidoff SEE Pratolino, Parco di Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Lazio 174 Villa Lante, Lazio: river god 167 Villa Vizcaya, Miami, Florida 157, 184 vine 37

viper’s bugloss, giant SEE Echium pininana visitors, National Trust 178, 179 voussoirs 51, 53 Waddesdon Manor, Bucks. 31, 51, 189;

Dairy 31-42, 61, 72; antler chandelier 39; archway 40; barns 31; boathouses 31, 32, 37, 39; box garden 37; buttery 31, 32, 40; cascade 40, 42, 42; caves 31; courtyard 39, 40; diaper-work tiling 37; dining table 37; fireplaces 40; ‘Five Arrows’ glass door 37; formal garden 40; gardener’s cottage 39; general office 39; glasshouses 31; grilles 39; heating 40; insulation 40; kitchen 39; loggia 37; Lord Rothschild’s office 37; oak balcony 37; oak doors 39; porter’s lodge 39, 39; ‘Queen Mary Dock’ 39, 42; rock bridge 40; rock garden 31, 42, 172; water garden 31, 32, 40, 42; wicket door 39; Winter Garden 39 Waitrose, Thame, Bucks. 72 Walcot Reclamation, Bath, Somerset 64, 71 wallflower 242, 276 Wallingford, Oxfordshire 12 walnut tree 29, 242, 257 Walpole, Horatio ‘Horace’, 4th Earl of Orford

(1717-97) 83 Walpole, Robert, 1st Earl of Orford (Sir Robert

Walpole) (1676-1745) 83, 87 Wardour Old Castle, Tisbury, Wilts. 12, 23, 49 Wareham Forest, Dorset 209 Watkins, Derry 157 Wayland’s Smithy, Ashbury, Oxon. 11 Wellbury Park, Hitchin, Herts. 14, 15 Wells, Somerset 15, 61; Bishop’s Palace 15,

174, 235; Chapter House 61; Library 15; New Street 15; Swan Hotel Museum 61; Vicars’ Close 15 West Dean, W. Sussex 241 Westbury Court, Glos.: Pavilion 23 Westenholz, Piers Patrick, Baron von 32, 39, 39 White, Terence Hanbury ‘Tim’ (1906-64) 10 White Star Line 13 Whitehaven, Cumbria 13 Whitsey, Fred (1919-2009) 65 Wilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills (1854-

1900) 230 Wilkie, Kim 25 willow, pollarded 120 Wilmot-Sitwell, Alex, Fiona & sons 189, 195, 196 Wilson, (James) Harold, Baron Wilson of

Rievaulx (1916-95) 135 Wiltshire Council, Planning and Building

Control, North Area 98 Wind in the Willows, The, (Kenneth Grahame) 10 Windrush, River, Oxon. 115; W. Valley 119,

131, 189; W.V. water meadows 120 wine, plastic-bottled 157 winter heliotrope 269, 273 wintersweet 18 Wisteria 12, 40, 42, 87, 136, 148, 152, 195,

240, 240, 242, 269, 273, 284; W. floribunda ‘Cascade’ 90; W.f. ‘Multijuga’ (syn. W.f. ‘Macrobotrys’) 94 witch hazel 196 Woburn Abbey, Beds.: grotto 146; wood yard 209 Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville

(1881-1975) 173 Wood, John, the Elder (1704-54) 240 Wookey Hole Caves, Mendip Hills Somerset 51 Woolbeding, Midhurst, W. Sussex 166-79,

212; bridges 165; cascade 172, 172; cave 172, 173; Chinese bridge 165, 167, 171, 173, 174; copse 165, 167; dining room 165; double border 165; flint-lined rill 174, 174; four seasons statues 174; glade 174; Gothic archway 173; Gothic pavilion 165, 171, 172, 172, 173, 174; Gothic ruin 167, 167, 171, 172, 174; ha-ha 165; hermitage 173; house 165; lawns 165; limestone trough 179; Long Walk 165; Mary’s garden 178, 179; parkland 165, 173; path of Dante 174; River Rother 172, 173, 173, 174; Rother god 167, 171, 172, 173, 174; rustic handrail 173; rustic hut 171, 174; shrubberies 165; tufa fountain 167, 174, 174; water tanks 178; woodland garden 165 World Trade Centre, New York 181, 185 Wormsley, Bucks. 28, 45-57, 165; ammonite archway 53, 57; book of plans 49; Campo Santo 45, 53, 55, 55, 57; caves 49; cricket pitch 49, 53; Cup and Saucer Marvel 49; Dew Pond 49; Egyptian obelisk 49; Fairy Ring in Cop Grove Wood 49; Giant Seat 49; grottoes 49, 49; ha-ha 49; Hermit’s Hut 49; island 49, 49; kiosks 49; library 49, 53, 53, 55; Menagerie/Piggery 49; Near Park 49; Norman stone tombs 49; pyramid/kiosk 49; river god keystones 55; rustic bridge 49; r.b. model 51; Sarsen stone bridge 49; satellite tower 45, 49, 49; sporting gate 49; Spring and Grot 49; statue of Hecate 53, 57; Three Circles 49; Tripartite Arch 45; Tudor fireplace 49; tunnel 49, 51, 51, 53, 53; t. sketches 51; Warren Hill 49 Wright, Thomas, ‘The Wizard of Durham’

(1711-86) 9, 28, 49, 51; Arbours and Grottos 26, 28, 49; Badminton hermitage ceiling design 26; design for Belvedere Gardens, Mullinger, Co. Westmeath, Ireland 51, 51; illustration of the Universe 26 Wych wood, Oxon. 189 Wychwood Manor, Oxon. 189-99; coach house

196; copses 195; curving walls 195; drawing room 195; dry-stone walled enclosure 195; flower bowers 195; flower garden 189; football pitch 195, 195, 199; front drive 196; gates 196; gazebo 195, 195, 199; green-oak doorways 195, 199; green-oak pillars 195; greenhouse 196; ha-ha 195; herbaceous borders 195; hoggin path 195; hornbeam allées 195, 195, 199; kitchen garden 189, 195, 196; lake 189; lawn 195; lily pond 195; lime avenue 196; oak balustrade 199; pear orchard 189, 199; park railing 195; parkland 189, 195, 196; peony walk 195, 199; plantations 189, 195, 195; pool house 195; potting shed 196; rides 195; rill 195; south front 189; stream 195; sunken garden 195; swimming pool 195; tennis court 189, 195; terrace 195, 195, 196, 199; view 199; view from Charlbury Road 189, 196; watercolour plan of garden 195; wooded ‘boscos’ 195; yew cones 195, 195, 199; yew sentinels 195, 199; yew ‘wing walls’ 195 Wynne, David (1926-2014): ‘Goddess of the

Woods’ 72, 78 yew 119, 120, 127, 181, 182, 196, 241, 246, 279;

y. balls 242, 248; y. cones 195, 195, 199; y. cylinders 242; y. domes 179, 179, 195; y. hedges 90, 93, 95, 99, 120; y. sentinels 195, 199; y. topiary 64, 136, 148, 184, 184 Zantedeschia 165 Zinnia 265

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