Dave 123
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The eejits I used to work for go every year.
As a bit of willy waving he bought a fountain from one of the show gardens one year. It HAD to be installed by his wife's birthday in July. It was a rush job, and it was installed wonky.
The fountain was a large lead agave, water came from the end of the leaves and dropped into a hexagonal pool 6" wide... one breath of wind and it ran dry then the pump burned out!
Surrounding all this were about 20 box balls and pillars and 8 pleached hornbeam, all in a raised space 1' x3'. It was difficult to keep them watered and fed.
£50,000. That was about 10 years ago.
I've been a couple of times, but the above story sums it up for me.
As a bit of willy waving he bought a fountain from one of the show gardens one year. It HAD to be installed by his wife's birthday in July. It was a rush job, and it was installed wonky.
The fountain was a large lead agave, water came from the end of the leaves and dropped into a hexagonal pool 6" wide... one breath of wind and it ran dry then the pump burned out!
Surrounding all this were about 20 box balls and pillars and 8 pleached hornbeam, all in a raised space 1' x3'. It was difficult to keep them watered and fed.
£50,000. That was about 10 years ago.
I've been a couple of times, but the above story sums it up for me.