Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop... To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.


The garden bench (ed. 1991)


Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True...

Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True...

Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True...

Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True...