Secret Garden Regents Park Rose Garden
It is better considered and more full of variety than any park i know.
Secret garden regents park rose garden. In 1928 the government made the decision that regents park should be made more accessible to the public and at that time the lodge was leased to public institutions and garden visitor access was through the lodge forecourt. Its also known as the secret garden rightly so i guess. Regents park secret garden path. The soil is richer and darker and the plantings are not intended to withstand the hurly burly of the general public.
Regents park is a highly cultivated public playground with impressive floral displays. A short history of regents park and st johns lodge. Queen marys garden is a world famous garden named after the wife of king george v. Personally im very grateful to the king for this commission as regents park is my favourite london park.
Johns lodge garden for this is the name of my secret garden is more personal than civic. Queen marys rose gardens within the inner circle is a beautiful area of the park but for those who explore a little deeper theres a lesser known garden just outside the. Highly accessible in beauty and variety with lakes including a boating lake swans crested asian ducks and nesting herons. In 1932 when queen marys gardens opened to the general public the first superintendent planted a rose garden which was completed in 1934.
And so london surprised me with the garden of st johns lodge in regents park. When john nash designed regents park in 1811 he. In 1993 landscape architects colvin and moggeridge were appointed to create a new separate entrance and to carry out a major garden restoration to reflect the original. In contrast the st.