No apologies for having a garden-themed week this week... Nab Wood's 'Open Gardens' were so beautiful and deserve a wider audience. This is another of the terraces in the garden I featured yesterday. The owner showed me some photographs of how the garden looked when they bought the house - and it was literally bare earth and rubbish. To have turned it into this little oasis in (I think he said) 11 years is nothing short of a miracle.
One of the interesting games you can play when looking round the open gardens is to spot the half-hidden, quirky little treasures that people have placed. Here, the bird bath takes centre-stage and I'll bet the birds love to splash in it.... but can you see the stone face in the corner of the border, a bit like one of the Easter Island statues?
Like you, i like hidden things in gardens.The statue seems to protect the place; And I like the birds spa! They must really enjoy the place when it's hot!
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't that another of the joys of the Open Gardens Scheme - being able to chat with the owners and creators of the gardens.
ReplyDeleteWith great difficulty and only because you called our attention to it, I kind of see the hidden face. Don't ever apologize for showing beautiful gardens. Flowers make me happy, and I hope I am not very unusual that way.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely! I'm going to save your last post photo and try to replicate that flower bed. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteI had to play hunt the face ;)
ReplyDeleteI enlarged your image and I still can't see it...but I don't know what that is on the ground right there in the center of the border. ~Lili
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