Watering plans
TURN on the fountains!’ exclaimed the head gardener of a country house to his gardeners when he realised that an unexpected visitor was none other than the eminent Victorian rose grower and Dean of Rochester Samuel Reynolds Hole.
It reminds us that ‘water features’ were not invented by television makeover programmes, but, indeed, have their roots in antiquity. Today, they vary in nature from limpid pools to impatient streams; burbling urns that tip their contents into bowl-shaped
