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...While the same space now holds a pond, meadow plots, an avenue of crab apples and a hazel coppice, what’s interesting is that a ghost of its abandonment lingers in her design today....
...Laurence closes ranks: “We’re very close to the National Trust. I’ve been a National Trust member practically since I left school.”...
...Just — trust me — keep looking. This is the secret to happiness....
...On the opposite side of Main Avenue, the RHS is staging a Feel Good Garden....
...Amid the cattle-strewn meadows and high hills of Upper Nithsdale, a clutch of strange forms has emerged: two 20-metre-high grassy mounds, capped with standing stones and ringed with spiral paths; a kind...
...Yet making trust-held assets economically self-sufficient is the challenge in the 21st century....
...(The Jacobean building can today be rented for four-night breaks from the Landmark Trust and sleeps up to six people.)...
...Depending on the weather between now and then the flowery meadow may or may not still be strutting its stuff....
...Its highlight is a long, cloister-like avenue of honey locust (gleditsia) trees, which divides house and garden from a vast meadow swooping down to the river below....
...The evidence on Piedmont Avenue seems to bear out this image....
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