Fairlight End Open Garden Part 2

I don`t know if anyone realises what it means to open your garden to the public.

It`s like wearing your heart on your sleeve, exposing all your garden ideas, ideals and being brave enough to leave some areas as not quite perfect.

Someone once said to me, "Please don`t make your garden perfect. It makes us all feel so bad."

A great deal of thought, planning and creativity have gone into this garden, not least of which is the ability to envision what it will become in the future. Not an easy task and difficult terrain to contend with on top.

I cannot imagine having such scope.

After a delicious lunch, we explored the upper garden areas....

.....the gravel garden......

.......the raised beds....

....where flowers mingle with vegetables and fruit......

 

..... and tantalising glimpses of the house.....

.....the greenhouse.....

.....the standing area.

Finally we made our way down the stepped path dotted with Christopher Lloyd`s favourite paving plant, the little erigeron daisy.....versatile and tough.

 

When I first saw this photo, I was a bit cross to have captured the figure, but on second thoughts I am quite happy for him to be in the picture as it were.......after all, it is doubtless, someone else 

enjoying the garden as much as me.

A truly inspiring experience.

I hope they made lots of money........

and.....

.....how come the sweetpeas are so much further on than mine?