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Hannah Peschar Sculpture under three free, concessions £4.50 1Garden, Surrey (01481 235571; www.artparks.co.uk). Owner/curator Hannah Peschar’s course for the eclectic collection of sculpture is set The Garden Gallery, in and around a delightful woodland 6Hampshire garden designed by her husband The work of about 70 artists is and garden designer, Anthony Paul. exhibited in a series of garden Contemporary and traditional rooms of lawns, trees, shrubs and artworks by an impressive list of old roses, as well as an orchard artists. All the sculptures are for sale and formal pool. and many of the artists can be Open by appointment. Entry: free (01794 coming year commissioned privately. 301144; www.gardengallery.uk.com). Open May-October, Fri and Sat 11am-6pm, Sun and Bank Hols 2-5pm. Entry: adults £9, Burghley House, Lincolnshire 0JH@JAOC@=@NOB@TJPMNOgardener. For those who specimens to bring an instant dusk. Entry: adults £4.65, children free, want to revamp or redesign “maturity” and feeling of concessions £2.74 (01736 796226; www. Newby Hall, Yorkshire Tan existing garden, or have establishment to a brand new plot, tate.org.uk/stives/hepworth). 8From figurative to abstract, recently acquired one when but this is very expensive. If you contemporary to traditional, the moving house, your choices will are really stuck for how to revamp Yorkshire Sculpture Park, collection of sculpture at Newby depend on gardening experience, your garden, or if it needs a drastic 3Yorkshire Hall is set in the tranquil Woodland what you want to use the plot for renovation, then it may be worth Eight open-air galleries in 500 acres Walk. Works include those by and your finances. Where you’ve asking a garden designer to come of stunning historic 18th-century William Pye and Sir Anthony Caro had the same garden layout for Structure: David in and rework all or just a part of it. parkland on the Bretton Estate as well as new artists in a range of many years, it’s usually best to start Hurrion, above, This can prove especially where modern and contemporary media. All the pieces are for sale. by cutting everything hard back to recommends living worthwhile if you have little sculpture is exhibited. Exhibitions Open April-Sept, Tues-Sun, Mons in July let more light and air into your plot with a garden for a experience of gardening or have included work by Isamu and Aug, Bank Hols, 11am-5pm. Entry: which allows you to see how best while before tearing knowledge of plants. Noguchi, Elizabeth Frink and adults £11, children £8.50 (0845 4504068; to give it a revamp. Then you’ll be everything out It is often simplest to have your Henry Moore. www.newbyhall.co.uk). able to carve out a new flower bed garden designed and built, or if Open year round (closed Dec 24 and 25), or replant a border. It’s rarely you prefer you can have a detailed daily, 10am-5pm. Entry free, car parking £4 Modern Art Galleries Sculpture necessary to rip everything out and plan drawn up that you can follow. (01924 832631; www.ysp.co.uk). 9Garden, Scotland start again although, if you’ve It can cost from £150 for a simple Sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, moved house and taken over a plan of the existing garden, with The Gibberd Garden, Essex Henry Moore and Tony Cragg are garden from a previous owner, additional fees for new designs – 4Town planner Sir Frederick among those that feature in the simply maintaining it can feel for example, from £90 for a border Gibberd began his seven-acre grounds of the Scottish National restrictive and you may feel that planting plan. For most cases it will garden of glades, groves, alleys and Gallery of Modern Art. you want to put your stamp on it. be money well spent as it means pools in the Fifties. There are about Open year round, daily, 10am-5pm (closed However, it’s a good idea to live you’ll have a precise goal to create 80 sculptures, large ceramic pots Dec 25 and 26). Entry: free (0131 624 with it for a while, before tearing a usable outdoor space, which will

and a collection of architectural 6200; www.nationalgalleries.org). everything out. You may find lots encourage you to take care of your MARIANNE MAJERUS/MMGI salvage. of hidden gems – both well- garden. For those taking on a new Open April-Sept, 2-6pm, Wed, Sat, Sun Goodwood Sculpture known and unfamiliar to you – garden, a plan can still be useful to and Bank Hols. Entry: adults £4, children 10 Estate, Sussex that pop up at different times of consolidate the ideas that you have makeover, most of you are happy then to measure one of your paces (6-16) £1, under six free, concessions Twenty-four acres of woodland year. In most cases it is possible gleaned from magazines, books, to make the changes yourselves, so you can calculate your garden’s £2.50 (01279 442112; www. on the Sussex Downs is the magical to adapt and incorporate existing the internet and other gardens. gradually. dimensions. thegibberdgarden.co.uk). setting for the Cass Sculpture elements into your own garden A recent survey by Gardeners’ More precise measurements can Foundation’s collection of sculpture ideas and plans. World about gardens revealed that Take stock of your plot be made with a builder’s tape, Sausmarez Manor Art Park, by artists such as Anthony Some of the best gardens are only three per cent said they had stretching it along one of the 5Guernsey Abrahams, Andy Goldsworthy and those that evolve. The biggest used the services of a garden It is possible to develop a garden boundaries of your garden, noting Founded in 1998, this sculpture park Caroline Rothwell. The exhibitions benefit of allowing a garden to designer, while 60 per cent without a detailed design, but a down the length and then pushing of wild subtropical gardens, lakes change regularly and all the pieces change in this way is that you will indicated that they had adapted it a simple plan is useful for working bamboo canes into the ground at and formal gardens forms a series of are for sale. have plants at different stages of little at a time. This may come as a out the best position for paths, 1-2yd intervals. Reel in the tape outdoor galleries for exhibitions by Winter opening hours by appointment only: development. bit of a surprise when you consider seating areas and other garden and take “offset” measurements artists from a long and varied list January 5-March 28, 10.30am-3pm; entry Retaining large key shrubs or that more than a third of those features. from each of the canes, across to that includes Patrick Barker, David £5, children under 12 free. Summer: March trees will help to provide a sense who responded said that their The size of gardens can be very the other side of the garden, Begbie and Michie Herbert. Many 30-Nov 7, Tues-Sun and Bank Hols, of structure to the garden and garden was overgrown with weeds deceiving and they often seem making sure the tape is stretched of the sculptures are for sale. 10.30am-5pm. Entry: adults £10, children may help to give a range of and grass when they took it over. smaller than they actually are. The at right angles to the original Open Jan 1-Dec 24 daily, 10am-5pm. Entry: under 12 £5, children under five free growing conditions for different It seems that even though many quickest method is to pace out the boundary. adults £5, children under 14 £4.50, children (01243 538449; www.sculpture.org.uk). types of plants. of your plots need a drastic length and width of your plot and The same method can be used to

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