Dewstow Gardens
Aug. 7th, 2020 06:18 pmI have been off work this week. By rights we should have been away touring WWI battlefields learning about the many poets of the time. As it is we haven't. So instead we've been doing a few things and I've generally been lazing around at home.
Yesterday we had a trip out to Dewstow Gardens. These gardens are in Monmouthshire (not far from Newport) and were originally created in the late 19th century, and on into the early 20th. When the gardens were sold they were filled in and either buried or destroyed, but in 2000 the land was purchased by the Harris family, who discovered what was a listed landscape garden together with underground grottoes.
I'd not heard of them until![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
vix_spes retweeted an article from the Guardian about hidden gardens to visit, and this one, being less than an hour's drive away looked like a perfect outing for this week. They are absolutely beautiful, with so much to see. The weather was overcast and raining at times, so my photos (of which I took masses) are not the best. But here is a selection to give you some idea:
( Dewstow Gardens )
Yesterday we had a trip out to Dewstow Gardens. These gardens are in Monmouthshire (not far from Newport) and were originally created in the late 19th century, and on into the early 20th. When the gardens were sold they were filled in and either buried or destroyed, but in 2000 the land was purchased by the Harris family, who discovered what was a listed landscape garden together with underground grottoes.
I'd not heard of them until
vix_spes retweeted an article from the Guardian about hidden gardens to visit, and this one, being less than an hour's drive away looked like a perfect outing for this week. They are absolutely beautiful, with so much to see. The weather was overcast and raining at times, so my photos (of which I took masses) are not the best. But here is a selection to give you some idea:( Dewstow Gardens )
