The Elysium Fields...

In Greek Mythology the Elysian Fields were a separate realm of the underworld reserved for mortals related to gods, the righteous, and the heroic. It was a place of splendour and beauty to eek out eternity. I thought this would be a great name for the field we have set aside for our Wildflower Project.

Above: The field created between the farm and the bell-shaped lawn.

Below: A map to where the sculptures and pyramid folly are planned, and where the mown allees through the flowers are planned...

The Stags...

We have sourced some magnificent stone stags with bronze antlers from the UK. They are duplicates of ones at Raynham Hall, Norfolk.

They will flank the entrance to the farm...

we did look at getting more life-like bronze stags...

but settled on the more heraldic poses of the stone ones.

The Pyramid

Pyramids and obelisks are shapes that appealed to the Georgians strong sense of geometry, which stood out as clearly neoclassical. Young gentlemen would have come across plenty to marvelous examples on their grand tours and then wanted to recreate them on the country estates.

They are simple enough to build, and I am going to have a go at creating one out of wooden framing with concrete board cladding, which I shall then have plastered when the manor house is having its exterior done. It will be much easier to move and much less expensive to construct than a stone one, but will still be the same size - one that you can walk through with an arch similar to The Needle's Eye of wentworth Woodhouse