The Happy PLACE
“I do love this garden and there are times, such as now, in early summer, when I feel quite proud of what we have made here,” says Caroline Cazenove. “It isn’t perfect or grand, and I don’t mind at all. What I want is for this to be a place that makes people happy.”
On a sunny morning in June, her Hampshire garden is a very happy place indeed, overflowing with life and colour. The silence is broken only by contented buzzing from some rather plump bumble bees, and the bleating of sheep in a neighbouring field. Shafts of sunlight slant down through an avenue of lime trees in long grass, the pool garden terrace shimmers with a haze, and the walled garden is a wonderful riot of roses and peonies, foxgloves and delphiniums.
