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I’ll admit here and now that I mostly go to gardens because my wife likes them and I like her. Our usual routine is that she flits about the flowers like a honeybee while I seek out the nearest shade.<\/p>\n
However, something about Marle Place captivated me. I think it started with the pool<\/p>\n Pretty standard as small bodies of chlorinated water go, but something about it pulled me out of my usual drowsinated garden state and made me thirsty for more.<\/p>\n What more can you ask for than a swing? The National Trust doesn’t provide swings (and if they did they’d probably charge extra for it). Even the knot seemed pleasingly tied. I was never a Scout and have no idea what kind it was.<\/p>\n Here was another charmed place to sit for the spell that was being cast on me.<\/p>\n Sculpture was scattered about, fitting right in wherever we stumbled upon it. I was particularly taken by<\/p>\n And what’s this?<\/p>\n Could it be\u2026?<\/p>\n That was very hard for my autofocus to latch on to. Of course, a rusty old bike is almost de rigueur in a garden.<\/p>\n We were served a very nice lunch much coveted by some of the locals<\/p>\n then left, entirely satisfied. That amphibian?<\/p>\n His beloved always seemed to stay one lily-pad ahead of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a private garden in Kent. Peaceful green spaces flowing one into another, whimsical topiary, a pool for eye candy, amphibians\u00a0for an earful (see below), and sculpture which isn’t at all objectionable even to philistines like myself who more … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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