This garden has been lost in time; wild plants and ferns encroach upon a corner that the sculptor has chosen as his summer workshop. His tools and half finished pieces sit amongst the hot summer blooms, planted then left to their own devices, as the sculptor concentrates upon his craft. Jobs started but not finished - the log pile, the plant pots, the weeds (wild flowers!) all tell of someone too distracted by his art to 'tidy up' the place.
The path leads through an old gate, around a unique waterfall, to a shady spot where he works. Colourful summer bedding rambles into geraniums,cosmos, hollyhocks and salvia. In the opposite corner tall dahlias and rudbeckias lead the eye up to the turning autumn colours of parthenocissus, which, alongside the ferns, soften the hard edges of the wood and stone, their coolness underscored by the coleus.
The beautiful water feature is encircled with crocosmia. This arc of August oranges and reds emphasises the glint of gold beneath the water, whilst the architectural foliage echos the precise lines and marks made by the sculptor into the stone.
