t its finest, a moated garden will make you smile and sigh the moment you arrive at the water’s edge. There is a wistful intensity to the shimmering, broken-up reflection of the planting on the banks above that cannot fail to affect you. Smudged clouds of yellow-green chartreuse suspended below sunny billows of , soft dashes of silver dancing‘Valerie Finnis’. The reflected south facade of the fairy-tale 14th-century Markenfield Hall near Ripon is crazily beautiful and highly charged with emotion, as if the voluptuous high-summer planting and the memory of all summers past are present at the same time.
Rock the Moat
Sep 06, 2023
2 minutes
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