Thursday 21 May 2015

Gardens of Bateman's

Since I have come to England I have been doing some voluntary work for one of the National Trust properties, Bateman's in East Sussex. Part of this was creating individual border designs for the new garden information sheets:

The Formal or Rose Garden,

... the Orchard,

... the Mulberry Garden

... and the Wild Garden.

All the plants, as well as the chicken, can be found in the respective gardens. The only exception is Puck (yes, that Puck), to be seen in the bottom right corner of the Wild Garden, who is not, in fact, an actual inhabitant of any of the gardens. However, there is a literary connection between him and the Wild Garden through a book by Rudyard Kipling, famous former owner of Bateman's. Puck's design is based on his description in "Puck of Pook's Hill".