A prolonged heat wave in the United Kingdom has revealed the remains of a long-lost 18th-century garden at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
Historic Significance
The garden, created in 1705 by royal gardener Henry Wise, was a formal parterre with symmetrical flower beds and paths. It was dismantled in the 1760s when the palace grounds were redesigned by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
Aerial photos show the outline of the garden, which is visible due to parch marks, or dry patches in the grass, across the grounds. The palace’s head gardener, Andy Mills, said the parch marks ‘allow us to trace the intricate design and scale of the original parterre’.
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