V for Victorian Glasshouses

23 thoughts on “V for Victorian Glasshouses”

1. These are great photos Jude. Interesting angle for the spiral staircase. I had not heard the term glass house before. We would call them green houses or conservatories.

   1. The large Victorian constructions tended to be called glasshouses or palm houses. A greenhouse is more a small structure in ones own garden. A conservatory is tacked on to the back or front of a house. Personally I love Orangeries! Great curved windows, but brick built with pretty tiled floors and loads of palms and citrus trees!

      1. Seems like our naming system is very bland. anything that has palm and citrus trees I want to see more of no matter what it is called. 🙂

2. I love all glasshouses. And all your photos. I used to teach horticulture at an agricultural college. When things got on top of me I’d take a calming stroll through the glasshouses!

   1. Oh what a dream job! No wonder you miss having a garden! Although the word ‘teach’ does fill me with a kind of dread 😦

      1. I taught youngsters on the job who were already working in horticulture. It was a dream job until the government got involved and ruined the educational system.

3. The one at Kew gardens look great, Jude, I can feel the humidity right here… The Lost Gardens of Heligan look a bit like the glasshouses in walled garden of Felbrigg:
   Victorian favourites…. I don’t know, honestly. I think the Jacobean Orangery at Felbrigg is beautiful and the one at Herrenhausen in Hannover too:

   http://www.hannover.de/Herrenhausen/Herrenhäuser-Gärten

   1. That looks like one amazing garden Dina! A shame the Victorian Palm House was bombed during WWII 😦

4. Delightful photos. I love these. Here we call them greenhouses. 🙂

   1. Well, funny you should say that. They always used to be greenhouses, but now they seem to be referred to as glasshouses, especially the BIG ones like Palm Houses. I’d like a greenhouse. I’d like a garden to put one in even more!

      1. That’s advertising for you. Putting a new spin on things. 😮

5. Amazing variety of glass houses, Jude. I’ve only been to the Kew gardens one. Who cleans all the windows? 😕

   1. Now THAT is a good question! Not me – I hate cleaning windows almost as much as I hate ironing!

      1. I actually don’t mind ironing, but cleaning windows is a NO NO. 😦

6. Great stuff as always Jude, but I have to go with Kew, just for the style alone.
   Regards as always, Pete. x

   1. I really like the one at RHS Wisley, but that isn’t Victorian – modelled I suspect on the one at Kew.

7. Wonderful selection for the ‘V’ challenge.
   The best reward of a green house … blooming flowers.

   1. Definitely 🙂

8. I’ve always wanted to go to Kew Gardens. Also Osborne house. You get around Jude and I love that I get to see the end results of all your visits with your lovely captures! I read your reply to Tess and didn’t realise that greenhouses are now being called glasshouses…who knew? We had a greenhouse when we first moved in here and I always wanted one too. But we took it down when we patioed the back as it took up too much space. I hope to be able to put it back up one of these days…and I hope you get yours too! Any news? xx

   1. I think the only real difference Sherri is that greenhouses are not necessarily made of glass. Hence Victorian buildings tend to be glasshouses! As you know I love gardens so every where we go I try to find one to visit 😀

      1. 😀

9. I love glasshouses too – and walled gardens. There’s a lovely one at West Dean in West Sussex. I’m quite partial to the new glass house at Wisley too. Built in traditional style and coming on a treat 🙂

   1. Ah, yes, I love Wisley too but as it’s not Victorian I’m afraid I couldn’t use it in this post. Never did make it to West Dean, though drove past there many times! Always fancied their chilli festival too.

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