Veddw has appeared on the shortlist of an award – for the Garden of the Year in the Countryfile magazine:
You can vote here.
Fat chance against Beth Chatto’s – but great to be in there!
Voted one of the UK’s Top 100 Gardens by Garden News
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Voted!!!!
Hurray! Well done and a very happy new year to you both! Xxxx
Voted for you – good luck
Thank you, Cherie. Will feel pleased to have been included whatever happens.
From Across the Pond- voted for You. Love Beth Chatto’s and have never seen your garden (I will, I will, I will) – but the images and what you write are especially inspirational to me. Have retired from a long career as an Architect – and with my sister – have started a small gardening company. I was so glad to find out from you what, in fact, we are – Garden-makers.
Thank you.
Ooo.. that’s bad but I love you for it! I am delighted if I have been helpful to you. Thanks for the vote and for letting me know. xxx
Well done. Good luck. Yours and Beth Chatto’s gardens are so different on so many levels, doesnt’ seem to me that they should be in the same contest, but …..
Thanks, and sure, her garden was my original model of the garden not to make. But if the whole UK is in, you are inevitably roping in and comparing some contrasts. Xxx