Why the funny name? Because — as many of you might well know — the ha-ha comes as a surprise to unsuspecting visitors. Designed to keep grazing animals out of the more formal areas of a garden, the ha-ha does away with the need for a fence, and creates the illusion of openness.
It enables unbroken views from the house and garden to the parkland or countryside beyond — something that English landscape garden designers such as Charles Bridgeman, William Kent and Capability Brown were keen to create.
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Get seasonal kitchen garden advice, special offers and recipes delivered to your inbox, for fruitful harvests this year! Horace Walpole, 18th-century man of letters and owner of Strawberry Hill, wrote of the ha-ha: The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonised with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without.
Although everything was designed to look natural, it was actually the result of a controlling hand. They can also be fashioned into attractive landforms that add drama to a scene.
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Designer George Carter has produced many for his clients. Tom Stuart-Smith made elegant use of them when he designed the famous three-tiered terraced garden at Broughton Grange in Oxfordshire. If you want your garden to connect with nature, there is no better answer.
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Ever wondered what a Rococo garden was? D-Day charity launches funding page for commemorative garden. Grow your own nuts. So you see, by adding an ha-ha to the landscape, the eye could rove freely beyond the immediate garden to the park onto the surrounding countryside,whilst keeping the animals away from the house and its pleasure gardens. Click on the image above to visit our Sister Site: A Jane Austen Gazetteer. The Letters of Mrs Lefroy: The Secret History of Georgian London: November 28, at 6: Lovely illustrations, as always, too, Julie.
Some, of course, are actually ditches, but in many cases, the animals appear to be freely wandering. I had never connected the two before your posting! November 29, at November 29, at 1: I wondered how it got that name — haaahaaaa………arms pinwheeling madly….
Thanks for clearing that up! November 29, at 2: Eventually I found a definition of them in some regency related material I read. When at Burghley this summer I finally connected the definition with seeing one just a few feet from where I was standing. I took pictures so I could convey the concept back home here in the US. The ha-ha is such a simple concept, but one that requires many words to effect a simple explanation: November 29, at 5: Ben Eastaugh and Chris Sternal-Johnson. Austenonly Jane Austen's life, times and works explained and discussed. Chapter 9 …watching the goings-on of the two pairs of would-be lovers, Miss Crawford and Edmund Bertram After sitting a little while Miss Crawford was up again.
Not Safe On Knolls Yes, certainly, the sun shines, and the park looks very cheerful. It was also used elsewhere in landscape gardens in Europe: Don't Miss a Post: An Invitation to Visit our Sister Site: Join Austen Only on Twitter. Vauxhall Gardens Vauxhall Gardens: But Surely Christmas in England didn't exist until Dickens invented it? Jane Austen and Christmas.
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