"Fulham: Gateway between Walled Garden and Grounds" by Jessie Macgregor (1847-1919)

Fulham: Gateway between Walled Garden and Grounds

Jessie Macgregor (1847-1919)

June 1915

Watercolour

Source: Macgregor, facing p. 92

Macgregor describes the gateway here as being "as picturesque a bit of old English building, on a small scale, as one might hope to see, near London, and out of Hampton Court" (92). [Commentary continues below. Mouse over the text for links.]

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She goes on to describe the garden itself, as follows:

The little garden is primarily a rose-garden, although a few late irises of a shade approaching mauve — a more refined variety of the earlier and common purple flag — are prominently introduced. It was strange to see irises and roses in juxtaposition, and flowering in the same month — but in this garden, and probably in others, that year, the seasons met each other, and April and May clasped hands with June. The bishop's head-gardener himself remarked to me that: "This year everything has come up together!" So lovely it was in consequence — Nature with immense prodigality pouring out all her wealth and beauty at one and the same time.... [92]

Link to related material

Fulham Palace, The Quadrangle and the FitzJames Gateway

Bibliography

MacGregor, Jessie. Gardens of Celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London. London: Hutchinson, 1918. Internet Archive. Contributed by the University of British Columbia Library. Web. 20 March 2022.

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