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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