| Description | This box contains Dorothy Elmhirst's ideas and designs for plantings in areas of the Hall Gardens. The notebooks include reference to the following: Hydrangea Walk 1961; colour chart 1943; Sunny Border and Valley Field 1963; 1943 month by month plantings in various areas; history of garden design in Europe; paeonies; garden design; rhododendrons; camellias 1955; Forsythia Walk, Circle, Iris Border; Circle autumn 1946; Pools, Children's Garden, Loggia, Iris Slope, Autumn 1942; the Wilderness, Upper Ranges, Pools and Courtyard, Nov 1940; Sunny Walk, Nov 1940. Includes Leonard Elmhirst's notes from Sep 1972 and trip to Westonbirt. |