Take a Seat
25 favourite garden benches fromSign of the Times
Belcombe Court
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Opens for one day per year in aid of the Red Cross
Bodnant
A National Trust garden in Wales
Boom
Public planting and bench outside the Boom restaurant at the University Shopping Village, Seattle
Chelsea Physic Garden
A registered charity, which is open to the public in London.
It is Britain’s second oldest botanic garden, dating back to 1673
Dyrham Park
A National Trust garden in Gloucestershire
Euridge Manor
A private garden near Colerne, Wiltshire
Great Dixter
Found in the porch
Hergest Croft
A private garden open to the public in Herefordshire
Kilver Court
A private garden open to the public in Somerset
Lacock Abbey
A National Trust garden in Wiltshire.
The bench is called Strata - as shown at the garden’s sculpture exhibition in autumn 2013
Monastery Garden
A public garden at Litomysyl in the Czech Republic
This ‘bench’ was being shown in an art exhibition in the garden in 2010
Monkton Park
A public Park in Chippenham, Wiltshire
Flooding on Christmas Eve 2013
Olympic Sculpture Park
A public park in Seattle, USA
Painswick Rococo Garden
A private garden open to the public in Gloucestershire
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Early morning at the Paralympics, London 2012
Royal Botanic Gardens
Inside the Palm House at Kew Gardens, London
Royal Festival Hall Roof Garden
A public garden at London’s Southbank
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Open during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London
Scampston
A private garden open to the public in Yorkshire
These ‘benches’ are sited in the part of the garden designed by Piet Oudolf
St. Botolph Row
Public planting found in Aldgate, London
The Bloedel Reserve
A garden open to the public on Bainbridge Island, Seattle
The Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley
Inside the Glasshouse at the RHS’s garden in Surrey
University Shopping Village
Public planting in Seattle, USA
“Remember me”
A poignant tribute on a memorial bench set within the public planting at College Green, Bristol
At Home
Opens to the public via the internet - see VPs Open Garden and Veg Plotting
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