Heavenly ASCENT
Set beside peaceful Coniston Water and embraced by the rugged Lake District fells lies Brantwood, the former home of the renowned Victorian writer, painter and philosopher John Ruskin. Amid this landscape, rich with inspiration, he set about crafting a range of individual gardens.
Not only are Ruskin’s gardens incredibly beautiful, they were also based on ideas that are increasingly relevant today: environmentalism, sustainability and organic cultivation. Weaving together wild plants from Britain and other parts of the world, he created a tapestry of colour and leaf form that looks entirely natural yet is carefully managed. And it is here that he laid out his dramatic, angular path, the Zig-zaggy, rich with purgatorial allegory and leading upwards to
