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Spring flowers going Dutch at Lydiard House Kryten Systems Ltd

Spring flowers will brighten and peerfume Lydiard House during the half term holiday from Saturday 9 KS Specialists in
to Sunday 17 February, writes Sarah Finch-Crisp, keeper of the house. Web Design
This year we are introduc- medicinal remedies and per- some of the services we offer
ing tulips into the displays in fumes, Surviving letters show Domain name registration
Webslte design and redesign
the State Rooms. They would she also got into disputes with Websits hosting on our own servers in
Telehouse
have been quite a topic of con- an employee over the owner- Search engine registration/promotion
versation in 17th Century ship of tulips in her garden. and reports on current rankings
Lydiard when news of 'Tulip- February is also the month
Friendly, personal service from a local
omania' in Holland was rais- when carpets of dainty snow- company that knows how to help your
business make an 1mprasslon on the
ing eyebrows across Europe. drops cover the woodlands; Internet.
At that time Sir John em- it's always a lovely time to visit
For a FREE quotation and advloo
ployed Netherlandish artist Lydiard Park. Do combine a Cali Clare on
Abraham Van Linge to cre- trip to the house with a snow- 01793 729815
ate the superb painted win- drop walk and refreshments at
dow which you can see at the visitor centre. [email protected]
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Lydiard House. Amongst the Many elderly Swindon resi-
hundred jewel like pictures dents remember walking out
of beasts and birds, warriors to Lydiard Park from schools
and boats, are tulips and fri- walk across what was then uklinks4
in the town; a six mile round
tillaries.
Flowers were expensive in fi elds, to gather bunches of
the 17th Century when, as snowdrops for their mothers. There are some
many who have read Permission for children to pick
Deborah Moggach's popular them was granted by Lady great resources
novel Tulip Fever will have Bolingbroke who was occa-
discovered, the obsession The Van Linge window, one of the sionally glimpsed through a on the Internet.
with tulips in Holland was extraor- many treasures at Lydiard House window in the house. Do any Link
dinary. A single bulb was sold for magazine readers remember do- But do you know
1,000 guilders in 1623, enough to clipped hedges and formal av- ing this?
buy a small Amsterdam town enues. Today evidence of these Today it is strictly forbidden to where they are?
house. In the 1630s a single bulb fascinating gardens lie under the pick flowers in the park, so that
of the variety Semper Augustus surface of Lydiard Park, a rich and they may be preserved for every- We do!
was valued at 13,000 guilders. largely uninvestigated archaeologi- one's enjoyment and pleasure year
Here at Lydiard. Dutch garden cal heritage. Lady JohannaStJohn after year. The Ranger Service and www.uklinks4.com
design influenced the composition took a huge interest in these gar- Museum staff look forward to wel-
of terraced gardens, topiary. dens, using the plants to make coming visitors this February.

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