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A SENSE OF PLACE

A SENSE OF PLACE
Designed to blur the boundaries with the countryside beyond, the beautifully flowing gardens at Rhodds Farm are filled with burnished colour and elaborate forms as autumn marches on

Created from scratch by garden designer Cary Goode, the effervescent gardens at Rhodds Farm in rural Herefordshire give little indication of the challenges that she and her husband, Richard, faced when they first moved there in 2004. Overhanging woods, open pasture to the south, brambles, a privet hedge, expanses of tarmac, a long, thin site, and little soil to be found apart from stony clay, were all difficulties to wrangle with.

‘There was no garden here at all when we moved in. What attracted us to the property

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