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The parterre was re-discovered
when the outline of the beds could be seen in the snow one winter.
After archaeological excavations the flower beds were cut into the lawn
and then edged with thousands of box plants.
The pair of giant stone vases on
the park boundary fence are carved with goats’ masks and the pipes of
pan date to the nineteenth century, but a series of lead urns on either
side may be survivors form Radnor’s original formal garden. The great
east and west avenues, which continue the line of the path parallel with
the railings, were laid out in the 1690's, and can be seen both in Kip's
engraving of the house and gardens and in Bridgeman's preliminary survey
drawings - although largely replanted at later dates.
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