Garden Reviews

You can find reviews of Veddw below. Reviews of The Bad Tempered Gardener can be found here. Reviews of more gardens can be found on the thinkinGardens website.

Veddw en fête and at dusk by Robert Webber

by AnneWareham on January 31, 2012

Hosta Walk Veddw copyright Charles Hawes

We were both delighted to be invited to Veddw by Anne Wareham and Charles Hawes for their Summer Party last weekend.

Aside from fascinating people, including ‘literati and glitterati’ from the garden world, great food and flowing wine, the context of the garden itself made this party extra special. It is always a privilege to look round a garden of national status as a private guest. To be there at dusk is a treat on altogether a different level. [..read more..]

Recent articles and reviews of Veddw

January 29, 2012

Links to articles about Anne and Veddw.

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Can professional designers really hope to emulate those for whom a garden is a life’s work? by Tim Richardson

September 6, 2011

    IF I WAS A GARDEN DESIGNER I would be a bit miffed by the fact that every list of iconic or outstanding contemporary gardens comprises special places which have, in most cases, been created by people who are not professional garden designers. Jarman, Jencks, Finlay, Strong/Oman at The Laskett and Wareham/Hawes at Veddw – [...]

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Review of Veddw by Bridget Rosewell

May 6, 2011

  The garden made by Anne Wareham and Charles Hawes in the Welsh Borders has been described by Anne as a modern romantic garden.  I struggle with this description which conjures up for me visions of 1980′s music and Adam Ant.  In this review I try to come up with an alternative interpretation which the [...]

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Extracts from “Gardens of Illusion” by Sara Maitland & Peter Matthews

March 10, 2011

“Most people consciously and unconsciously respond to the larger topography in the making of their gardens. Often it is to something simple – a slope, a curve, a mature copse, a single tree or (lucky gardeners) standing or moving natural water. If something is there, ready and waiting, and particularly if getting rid of it [...]

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Review of Veddw House Garden by Noel Kingsbury

February 3, 2011

The following review of Veddw was taken from Gardens Illustrated, November 2006. Listening to the praise of visitors is always pleasant for garden owners who open their gardens to the public.

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