Saving GRACE
When Mary Cox moved into her chocolate box, timbered cottage in the village of Crowle in Worcestershire nearly three decades ago, she had a daunting task ahead of her. “The third of an acre garden had been used as a dumping ground by the builders from whom I bought the cottage,” she recalls, going on to explain how it was the terrible state of the garden that had put off other prospective buyers of the 17th-century, Grade II-listed, black-and-white building.
Soaring spires of rainbow hollyhocks, sweet peas and poppies surround the quaint thatched cottage
In a photograph that’s dated 1929, Mary’s home is shown flanked by apple
