{"id":13691,"date":"2016-07-05T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=13691"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:23:15","slug":"final-photos-of-veddw-sun-aug-23-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wales-2015\/final-photos-of-veddw-sun-aug-23-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"final photos of Veddw – Sun. Aug 23, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

if you’re reading this before all the other postings for today, you must click here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/veddw.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

to read all about Anne Wareham and Charles Hawes’ splendid garden tucked off in a corner of Wales.<\/p>\n

at this point in the day, we’d been at Veddw for only about 45 minutes, going kind of crazy looking at all the beauty everywhere.<\/p>\n

here’s a close-up of crocosmia, my new favorite flower.<\/p>\n

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i love this picture of kevin; it’s one of the few photos of our trip that i’ve managed to print out and hang on the wall so far.<\/p>\n

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here’s what anne writes on her site about this spot in the garden.<\/p>\n

This seat and the surrounding hedge are on a slope \u2013 and it is not comfortable to sit on a sloping seat. Or, indeed, to look at one. We contemplated this problem when Chris Young, a friend and the editor of The Garden, visited. Between us we came up with this dramatic disguise of the slope. We levelled the seat by cutting its legs.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you go to the site, there’s a nifty map of the garden, and you can click on the links to see photos of the different sections. \u00a0or you can just keep looking at my pictures…<\/p>\n

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and this is what she writes about this lovely area.<\/p>\n

The meadow has probably not been ploughed for over 200 years. Apart from a generous addition of bulbs for the spring we have left it as meadow, taking the grass off every year. The anemones, wild orchids, cowslips, ox eye daisies and wild grasses have multiplied and reassure us we are doing a good thing here.<\/em><\/p>\n

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there’s a giant arched shrub right behind this fountain, but i was so intent in getting a close-up of the fountain that i have no photo of the arch.<\/p>\n

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it’s called the hornbeam arch, and anne wrote about it on her blog here:<\/p>\n

Superman at Veddw – cutting the Hornbeam Arch<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n