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How a $86 million garden looks like


Published in Design, Garden, Living, eco Tags: harry potter, rich, versailles

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Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, started a project that became one of the most ambitious public gardens created in Europe since World War II.

Only two thirds of the project, has been built so far, at a cost of about $86 million, most of which came from public financing and private donations.

Jacques Wirtz, a Belgian landscape architect is considered by some the modern equivalent of the designer of the gardens at Versailles.

He was hired by the duchess to design some parts of the garden.

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T he Duchess of Northumberland

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Alnwick Castle played the role of Hogwarts School in the first two Harry Potter movies.

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During its first year of opening, the garden had 250,000 visitors, and by last year the number reached 625,000.

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One of the attractions is a Rose Garden containing 3,000 roses from 180 varieties.

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The Poison Garden is a restricted area with about 100 varieties of toxic plants, as well as cannabis and opium .

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This tree house costed $7 million and was built amid 17 lime trees. It has an education center, a restaurant that can serve up to 80 people and a lot of

suspended walkways.

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The duchess still has to raise $60 million to complete the third phase of the project.

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I wonder how nice and calm it would be to walk in this garden…

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required Says, in 7-22-2008 at 06:02:53 from 76.21.2.122    

That’s nice. It’s no Longwood Gardens, but it’s nice.

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The Internet Says, in 7-22-2008 at 14:51:01 from 208.124.209.154    

It should be:
- “what” an $86 million dollar garden looks like
- “responded” to this post rather than “responsed”
- “inform me when someone posts a new message here”

Otherwise this post is fantastic!

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pizi Says, in 7-22-2008 at 21:21:11 from 213.195.216.3    

Opium is not plant. Opium is from poppy.

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Brian Says, in 7-23-2008 at 06:39:32 from 69.139.188.143    

Required… I’ve been to Longwood Gardens many times as I live a mere 20 minutes from it, and I must agree, for probably half the price it’s 10x as nice.

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rhiesa Says, in 8-5-2008 at 18:30:11 from 24.65.133.31    

Wow, an 86mil front for a grow op ^_^

Definitely going to change my vacation plans, this place looks beautiful

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The Consummate Gardener Says, in 8-22-2008 at 07:17:00 from 71.100.36.234    

Wow. Renting out your house for movies must be profitable. But if you have to spend to excess, spending it on a public garden is a good thing. Kudos!

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sarah Says, in 11-19-2008 at 15:40:21 from 24.180.192.71    

the flowers in the ‘rose garden’ pic are actually peonies

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Rob Says, in 1-4-2009 at 15:06:12 from 24.62.231.32    

Worst title and use of English in a title ever

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hitman357 Says, in 1-4-2009 at 15:46:51 from 24.164.44.26    

Man, I gotta get in that poison garden.

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Aliyah366891 Says, in 1-5-2009 at 03:35:58 from 216.121.243.32    

is it just me, or is almost everyone that posted above me total assholes?
Anyway, I think it looks beautiful, great dedication to work ethic in this garden.

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Garth Says, in 1-5-2009 at 09:50:34 from 216.246.236.238    

Longwood Gardens is where it’s at. Best thing ever made by DuPont.

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Rob Says, in 1-10-2009 at 15:23:58 from 207.161.70.172    

hmmmm its beautiful but it doesn’t look 86million dollars worth beautiful?? what was the money used for? everythink in these photos look like something you would see anywhere…

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BillinDetroit Says, in 1-17-2009 at 12:14:53 from 216.144.215.217    

Aliyah, when your blog consists of a few photos and very few words, you owe it to your readers to get the words right. Peonies are not roses. “Costed” is not the same as “cost”. I found this via Stumble Upon but I can’t recommend it to others because the suggest changes (all correct) have not been implemented. What the previous posters offered, and what I am offering, is known as constructive criticism. Each of the noted changes would improve the blog. Fawning over mediocre work does not help the author OR his readers.

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Priscilla Says, in 3-20-2009 at 21:00:26 from 76.194.236.68    

“The Poison Garden is a restricted area with about 100 varieties of toxic plants, as well as cannabis and opium.”

umm cannabis is neither poisonous or toxic

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