The Big REVEAL
Apr 20, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS STEPHEN ANDERTON
PHOTOGRAPHS
JOE WAINWRIGHT
It is 24 years since Staffordshire farmer Anthony Tavernor bought the 200-acre Plas Cadnant estate on the Isle of Anglesey, off the north-west corner of Wales. It came with a good solid house looking back to the mainland over the Menai Strait – ‘a gentleman’s residence’ of 1804 – complete with generous outbuildings. But to Anthony’s growing surprise and delight, buried beneath 70 years of overgrowth, he found a large and rather wonderful garden, which has become his abiding passion.
Picturesque viewpoints must have encouraged Georgian ladies to gasp at the torrent
Anthony knew that under the blanket of self-sown trees there was
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