The Swiss Garden
World Radio Gardening
English - June 18, 2015 14:33 - 9 minutes - 13.5 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLeisure Hobbies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Swiss Garden in Bedfordshire is approaching its 200th birthday. Lord Ongley set the garden out in a Regency style in the 1820s. The estate was purchased by industrialist Joseph Shuttleworth in the 1870s, who kept the Regency picturesque style as Kevin Hilderditch told Ken Crowther.