A garden of the mind Plaz Metaxu, Witheridge, Devon The home of Alasdair Forbes
THE farmland rolls up and down, interrupted by hedges and trees. There is a small lake and a haze of reeds showing where the valley bottom is damper. It all looks typically Devonian. Yet a closer examination reveals oddities: a cluster of narrow slate pillars, figures on the ground made by cobbles, clipped hedges that enclose irregular spaces. Welcome to Plaz Metaxu, the life’s work of art historian Alasdair Forbes, who moved here in 1992.
Until now, there were two recently made gardens of note that could be
