The gardens of Landgoed de Wiersse in the press
Articles about Landgoed de Wiersse regularly appear in the national and international press, including in newspapers, magazines, gardening journals and scientific journals. These articles often focus on the gardens. Here you will find a selection of publications from recent years. If you are interested in publishing about de Wiersse, you can of course contact us for more information, for print-quality photos and to make an appointment for a guided tour.
Living in historic heritage: Mary's green secret
Stan Huygens
"This garden is a viewing game, a feast for the observant eye. A quiet, slow ballet performance for the walker who sees changing vistas pass by, between a few tightly clipped boxwood trees."
Casting a spell, 21 January 2015
text: James McGrath; photos: Marianne Majerus
"Some gardens possess a unique spirit, measured by a careful balance of geography, landscape, layout and plants, but, most importantly, it's the people who create and inhabit the garden that are intrinsic to its success. In my estimation, no other place achieves the balance of these elements more gracefully than De Wiersse, in the Dutch countryside. (...) I am constantly haunted by the sublime beauty that is De Wiersse."
De Wiersse, the most beautiful garden in the Netherlands now open to the public, 24 May 2003
De Wiersse, the most beautiful garden in the Netherlands now open to the public, 24 May 2003Koos de Wilt
"Above all, de Wiersse remains a garden that surprises with its intimacy. Perhaps because it is one of the few estates still privately inhabited, but certainly because of the controlled hand of its creators. Those who garden on a small scale get grand ideas here, those who dream of infinity get lessons in modesty.“
Unfortunately, we do not have permission from the publisher to post the entire article here.
Landgoed de Wiersse:
De Wiersse is not a managed estate,
but a garden where gardening is done, 2020
BBC Gardeners' World Magazine published no less than four articles on De Wiersse's gardens in 2020. After the first article, the editors were so impressed with the gardens that it was decided to devote three more extended seasonal articles to the gardens: summer, autumn and winter! Read the articles below:
Summer article De Wiersse 2020
NRC 11 June 2007
Marjoleine de Vos
"And then the De Wiersse house itself, with its 16-hectare landscape garden, which is open for visits on a number of days throughout the year and makes you want to become Vita Sackville West immediately“
Making history, May 2015
text: Frank Ronan; photos: Maayke de Ridder
“The beautiful gardens of De Wiersse are an ever-changing work of art that is fresh and modern while remaining loyal to its heritage, thanks to owners Peter and Laura Gatacre. (…) [O]n the heritage side the garden is impeccable. Peter is fantastically correct and conscientious about his responsibilities to the place; his grandfather was Victor de Stuers, the godfather of the Rijksmuseum, and so the preservation of heritage runs in his blood. But Laura’s eye for a plant and her enthusiasm in collecting, propagating and endlessly shuffling them around is what makes the garden vibrant.”
De Wiersse, a suprise in the Achterhoek, 2021 (Hollands Glorie no. 3)
"The gardens of De Wiersse have gradually taken their current form from 1678 onwards through the efforts of successive generations of one family. Details can be found everywhere that testify to their craftsmanship and show how carefully they always worked."
Gardens Country Style, autumn 2017
"De Wiersse, (...) boasts, according to connoisseurs, one of the most beautiful gardens in the Netherlands. Particularly in autumn, when nature shows its most colourful and fragrant side, you fall from one surprise into the next."
Green heritage, 22 August 2009
Jacqueline Bosboom
"The gardens and forest park with its water features, paths, bridges, statues, foliage corridor and more of those romantic features have their charm even in the pouring rain."
Die Gärten von De Wiersse, vom zauber des Frosts, 2018
Marion Lagoda & Jürgen Becker
"De Wiersse an einem Wintermorgen ist ein eigenartig magisches Erlebnis. Es fühlt sich an, als sei der Ort der Welt abhandengekommen. Man zögert fast, diese Ruhe zu stören, einzudringen in dieses von Frost und Nebel geschaffene Kunstwerk"
Het Parool, 9 October 2010
"The park is magical, a place to wander around and be surprised each time by something special. We pass high spouting fountains, a babbling brook, the gravestones of the two dogs under an old yew tree. The ornamental gardens around the pretty outdoors, however, are not inferior to the park in all their cultivated beauty."
Hopefully to be read soon, we are still seeking permission from the publisher
De Wiersse: formal and romantic, March 1992
E.V. Gatacre
"Many foreign influences, from the south of Ireland to the Italian Liguria, have contributed to this garden and park. Yet its natural character and historical continuity have predominated as each successive generation has taken on responsibility for the development of de Wiersse."
Der Landsitz de Wiersse, January 2002
Wolfgang Ruhrberg
We do not have permission from the publisher to post this article here in its entirety.
On the Website of Gartenpraxis a preview of the article can be seen, and is downloadable for subscribers
Necrology E.V. Gatacre: Peter Gatacre was above all the saviour of the estate of his childhood, July 2020
Necrology E.V. Gatacre: Peter Gatacre was above all the saviour of the estate of his childhood, July 2020"He was director of a Ghanaian newspaper and Madame Tussauds. But Peter Gatacre's life's work was securing Landgoed de Wiersse."
Gardens that can be read like an archive / Découvrir des jardins comme on lit des archives, autumn/winter 1999
text: Romke van de Kaa; photos: Jürgen Becker
"And although this garden is by no means a museum, it is increasingly developing into a place of choice for the preservation of rare species. After all, as the landscape around De Wiersse becomes increasingly impoverished and impoverished, the estate is increasingly becoming a reserve not only for plants, but also for animals. For example, the unfertilised grassland is now a haven for insects, while the forest is home to woodpeckers and nuthatches and the house itself houses a colony of bats."
Variety of vistas in Gelderland, 25 August 1977
Text: E.V. Gatacre; Illustrations: Alex Starkey
Buitenplaats De Wiersse, the power of continuity, summer 2007
text: Cécile van der Heijden; photos: Fred Roest
The green fingers of the Gatacres, July/August 2011
text: Thelma Egberts; photos: Otto Kalkhoven
Algemeen Dagblad, July 13, 1995
"The vegetable, vegetable and flower garden resembles in its beauty a small format Sissinghurst, the famous English garden in Kent by writer Vita Sackville West; on one side artichokes, green asparagus and fennel, fringed by a row of leopard trees, on the other side peonies, campanula, hollyhocks, delphiniums and clematis. Past old-fashioned medlar trees, whose fruit must be rotten to be consumed at the end of the year, we walk into the berceau. Again, a cool salve in the crippling heat. The surprise after the turn is a fountain and a view through to a Greek statue in the distance.“