Veddw House Garden

“I discovered there were modern and secular interpretations of this tradition – gardens that reflect, illustrate and develop personal philosophies and ideas of beauty; gardens that really are a form of art: Little Sparta, the late Ian Hamilton’s garden in Lanarkshire; Charles Jenks’ Garden of Cosmic Speculation; the Veddw, Anne Wareham’s garden near Monmouth.

These gardens are an open-ended, always changing way of exploring personal meaning and the interior world; they are lovely places that hold together nature and culture; they find meaning in very mundane processes – and these are silent.”

‘A Book of Silence’ by Sara Maitland, pub Granta 2008.