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In September friends of ours brought one of their tours to our garden. And one of their group, Vicki Scott, was, amazingly, inspired to write a poem about the garden. And here it is!

Here are some of the tour. Is Vicki here? (I don’t know!)

Garden Tour in the Welsh Borders – Veddw

On a Welsh mound golden grasses

stroke bare arms, passing by

someone slips on the shingle

and reaches out for a handful of fragile tensile rods

(whoops – sorry about that slip…)

Disco balls astride square oak beams

in the newly mown grass meadow

act like distorting mirrors in a fun fair.

Laughter breaks the barriers of Covid isolation,

their shiny steel sends laser like arrows

into the dark shadows of a yew hedge.

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This garden is all patterns and shapes,

angle and contour mimic a landscape of

ancient field boundaries.

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Spirit levelled razor sharp hedges

lead to the ruins of a woodman’s cottage

where history meets horticulture.

An ink black water garden,

the sump for water boatman and damsel flies,

invites reflections on the practice of conservation.

The crenelations of a rabbit proof fence______________

embed this visionary natural theatre

to its Marches border history

when land hungry Norman Barons

cared not for artifice or expression

but farm and pasture, cattle, skins and fleeces was the economy.

Swathes of Japanese Anenomes, Persicaria, Clerodendrum,

Hydrangeas, Scabious and Montbretia are its

army now, invoking welcomed intruders

to bowed admiration.

Present and Past meet in labour and love,

The thud of a fork turns over ancient and new.

Inspiration travels beyond its worked edges.

Veddw setting

by Vicki Scott

And see her Cottages to let

And here is my latest Garden Rant!

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