In Loving MEMORY
The gentle days of early summer are the time when the garden at Brillscote House comes into its own. There’s an exultant symphony of colour, scent and birdsong, brought together by a man with an artist’s eye and joy in his heart.
Simon Mounsey poured body and soul into a plot ravaged by building works. Over 14 years he took pleasure in seeing his ideas develop, with the hundreds of trees planted in his woodland reaching further into the sky and 100 or so roses filling out to blend with a carefully chosen palette of perennials to produce richly hued living tapestries. His discerning ‘Chanticleer’, leading along a stone path to a gateway beyond, the geometric box-hedged vegetable beds and a plant-clad ‘ruin’ – an intrinsic part of the garden, even though it was made in 2016.
