Gardens Illustrated Magazine

In balance

A canal garden feels entirely right in the wide Fens of Cambridgeshire, although only traces of Chippenham Park’s original 17th-century waterways remain. The Anglo-Dutch garden started off in 1609 with formal canals cross-hatching a park crammed with grand avenues. By the late 18th century, landscape

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