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Veddw House Garden, Devauden, UK Veddw  has been created by garden writer Anne Wareham and garden photographer Charles Hawes. The garden is set in the wonderful countryside of the Welsh border above Tintern. There are two acres of ornamental garden and two acres of woodland. A favourite part with visitors and ourselves is the dramatic reflecting pool. The local landscape of rolling hills is reflected in the sinuous hedges that lead to the pool and provide the perfect backdrop for other planting schemes. Anne has a great interest in the history of the local landscape and has incorporated this into the garden design, in particular a large parterre of grasses in a pattern of box hedges based on the local Tithe Map of 1842. Much of the garden was made on ancient grassland, which has been conserved in many parts of the garden, especially the Meadow.

I've put this video to help launch a new book by Anne Wareham "The Bad Tempered Gardener" From the publishers: Seeing gardening as a serious and even outrageous art form has placed Anne Wareham well outside of what usually passes for discussion of gardens. Impatient with received ideas, eager to provoke, The Bad-Tempered Gardener is the story of her development as a thinking gardener and the creation with her husband, Charles Hawes, of their acclaimed garden in the Welsh borders, the Veddw. More info: thinkingardens.co.uk franceslincoln.co.uk