Diagnosing (Identifying) Holes in the Yard. It began in February 2009, and for ten years through almost 1,500 posts, it has covered the activities of the gardening team and the lives of some of the wildlife that inhabit the gardens. This community is located at 545 Salisbury St. in Worcester. Although the College is located close to the city centre, unlike other central colleges, Worcester is situated in 26 acres of picturesque landscaped grounds.Inside the College walls lie manicured lawns, magnificent herbaceous borders, a century-old orchard, an exciting and diverse collection of trees, an ornamental lake, and a cricket pavilion overlooking playing fields and tennis courts. At Illyrian Gardens you're new apartment awaits. The college is just across the road from the main bus and coach station, and is a 10 minute walk from the railway station and main shopping areas.
Its original 18th-century gardens were landscaped in about 1820 by Richard Burswell. By 1899, the grazing meadows for the Provost’s cattle were transformed into playing fields.Today, the gardens are award-winning. The gardens are unique among all the Oxford colleges in being landscaped in the naturalistic manner, formed at a time when the late ‘picturesque’ strand of the landscape garden was giving way to the more decorative approach, with shrubberies, of the Regency period. Come by to view the available floorplans. About Illyrian Gardens.