A sun-drenched garden path draws the eye toward a slender stone sundial presiding over a raised terrace at Woodside, Chenies — a Buckinghamshire estate whose Arts-and-Crafts-era borders burst with delphiniums, dahlias, and white Madonna lilies in Beatrice Parsons's characteristically lush hand-coloured style. This is card No. 48 from A. & C. Black's celebrated Gardens of England series, one of the most collectible Edwardian garden postcard sets ever produced; Parsons's watercolour originals were described by the influential garden writer E. T. Cook, and the cards were chromolithographed to a standard that still impresses a century later. Woodside at Chenies was a private Hertfordshire/Buckinghamshire border garden known for its elaborate herbaceous borders, and this view — flanked by clipped topiary sentinels and backed by mature beech woodland — captures the Edwardian ideal of the "wild" yet controlled English garden at its most photogenic.