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  • The English Garden

    The Birth of A CLASSIC

    Aug 14, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS NOEL KINGSBURY
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    REBECCA BERNSTEIN

    First impressions count. Especially in a landscape as generous and beautiful as the Wye Valley where Herefordshire meets Gloucestershire. Jo Ward-Ellison and Roy Smith’s cottage sits hidden in a dip on a wooded hillside. Enter the garden from the house and your eye will inevitably be drawn up a grassy slope, at the end of which sits a rather impressive border, filled with big grasses and perennials. At first it isn’t obvious that it belongs to the cottage, but the mind quickly makes a connection with a strong showing of grasses in the more formal area near the house.

    “Originally,” explains Jo, “we were going

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