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Tag Archives: Harold Peto

Buscot – Quirky Delights and Disappointment

Posted on June 21, 2014 by admin
Water Garden 2

The camera can lie. Visiting gardens is not the straight-forward business it would seem to be, and I don’t like to think of the number of wasted days I have had travelling full of anticipation to see some second-rate garden … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Harold Peto, Lord Farringdon, National Trust, Oxfordshire

Iford Manor – Harold Peto’s Home Turf

Posted on March 8, 2014 by admin
The Wounded Celt

  I confess that the fashionable New Perennial Gardens don’t do a lot for me. They seem to be transitory will o’ the wisp things with no sense of time or place, that in our climate, where things grow eleven … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardens Archive, UK | Tagged Harold Peto, Somerset, Wiltshire

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