Talk:Garden room

Early history
I won't be able to work on this for some time, myself, but I can suggest that something might be added about the view of some sources that early versions of garden rooms go back to Ancient Rome. There was past discussion of this, with some links to sources, at Featured article candidates/Sissinghurst Castle Garden/archive1. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:26, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks for that link. I handily found Jenny Uglow's excellent book directly saying Pliny had them. That discussion misses the medieval period (which I may expand on) and the Baroque. The trouble is some writers (Hobhouse for example) seem to be rather snooty about the term & avoid using it, plus the concept itself is incapable of a really hard definition. I'd include Jekyll with a really solid ref - the English Heritage one might do it perhaps. What about the straightforwardly mad Elvaston Castle? Johnbod (talk) 20:07, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I could perhaps look into it, but it would take me some time. I'm not sure what your question about Elvaston is? --Tryptofish (talk) 21:12, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Whether to include it. The Victorian gardens were highly compartmented, on a grand scale. Johnbod (talk) 00:21, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The photos on our page about it certainly look more like grand lawns than garden rooms, but I'd have to do some research to know more about the more intimate parts of the gardens. I'd just be guided by avoiding any original research. If there are sources that you can quote that say Elvaston had garden rooms, then by all means cite them. But if there are no such sources, I'd omit it. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:15, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Was ...
... The Secret Garden a garden room? Fowler&amp;fowler «Talk»  04:20, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Is this a facetious question, or are you suggesting making an "in literature" section? The garden that provided some inspiration was at Great Maytham Hall. That garden appears to have been a walled garden. If walls were used to enclose portions of the overall garden, that would clearly fit with this page, but if the entire thing had a wall around it, that would require some editorial judgment and checking of source material. I looked at the available images at Commons:, and they don't look particularly room-like, but it's still possible. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:13, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I haven't read the book, but I get the impression it is rather too large, and wholly walled. Sometimes you see "secret garden" as a synonym for "garden room" room though. Johnbod (talk) 03:17, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Many apologies for forgetting all about my post. No, it wasn't facetious, but a tad informal, I admit. Yes, it was wholly walled (from the memory of reading it long ago; that's why I had asked). I do have the book lying around somewhere. No, there's no need for a literature subsection. Thanks, both.   Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  22:28, 26 February 2022 (UTC)