A very occasional series sharing all sorts of garden seats found while visiting gardens.It has been several months since I wrote a post in this series but decided to start again and relaunch this very occasional series after receiving some photos of garden benches from sister-in-law Vicky.
Plas Cadnant, the Hidden Garden had some fine examples to sit on or just admire, including a very high backed seat which Jude just had to try out.
The last two seats we found at the Hidden Garden were both white but very different in design. The first overlooked a formal pool edged with bergenias, and could seat a good number of people. The second white seat was much simpler with wooden slats and cast iron legs in a typical Coalbrookdale design.
While on Anglesey we visited the National Trust property Plas Neuad which was on the estuary. We wandered around following a path that would lead us to the house itself right on the waterfront. We only spotted these four seats, the first one was pretty ordinary and looked lost in the huge empty spaces and would thus feel strange to sit on. The best design here was the swallow back seat which was for sale in the nursery.
For the next set of garden seats we need to travel down to Herefordshire near to Hereford itself to another National Trust property. The Weir is just open as a garden without the usual large mansion to visit. It is a garden which is at its best at spring bulb time and it is long and thin following alongside the line of the River Wye. I photographed just these two seats, very different to each other but both lined up to get superb views of the river.
Well, that’s it for now but the next garden seat posting will be out a little closer than this last one.
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