A Labour OF LOVE
The sense of tranquillity and the exhilaration experienced when wandering through a woodland garden in spring – the concentration of sights, sounds and scents – almost defies description. Indeed, a spring garden visit is something that can reawaken us, gardeners and non-gardeners alike, after a winter of hibernation. But it isn’t a case of ‘one size fits all’ nor of ‘seen one, seen ’em all’, as this writer discovered on a visit to the garden at Pembury House, near Ditchling in West Sussex, with its exceptional, artfully embellished acre of woodland, which opens by appointment for the National Garden Scheme each spring.
Jane and Nick Baker always had ambitions to one day create a woodland garden full of plants for winter and spring. Indeed, they say
