A Visit from Anne Wareham
Life is full of surprises. On Wednesday I had a visit from Anne Wareham and her husband Charles Hawes. I have known Anne virtually for a while. I follow her on Twitter, read her website thinkingardens , and she reads my blog from time to time and occasionally comments. I met her and Charles briefly at the Malvern show last year and I keep an eye out for her journalism. We had a couple of email exchanges after I blogged about a recent visit to Beth Chatto's garden and she suggested that she would like to come up and see the garden. So that was the first surprise. My immediate reaction was to wonder if she was serious - Veddw is a great garden, my garden is hardly yet even a work in progress. I am not a trained gardener. I am not an artist. I used to be an adviser on international tax and now I am a garden obsessive, partly I think to use up the energy which used to go into my work. My second reaction was to be intrigued. ...