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However, the reason for me posting about it here is to showcase these wonderful 'medieval' walls that run around certain sections of the garden, lining the banks of what was once a chalk pit.
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I love the fact that found remnants of different buildings appear to have just been shoved into the wall as seemed appropriate at the time, creating a bespoke folk art memorial of different dwellings from the local area. A complete hodgepodge, it juxtaposes amusingly against the more formal aspects of the garden.
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Alongside this, there are church window arches and gargoyles placed in flower boarders, seemingly at random, that give the place a strange quirkiness not dissimilar in feel to Clough Williams-Ellis' Portmeirion.
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If you are in Norwich and want to get out of the hustle and bustle, then it's well worth finding the time to pay the gardens a visit. Check The Plantation Garden website for more details of its history, restoration, and more importantly, how to get there. Just don't tell too many people.
3 comments:
wow...what amazing photo opportunities. I'm going to have to check this place out!
thanks for sharing
Post a link to your shots when you've been. I'd like to see them.
I head down to this as soon as I read your post... love it I have already been 3 times showing visitors :) nice one Nigel! (its down my road which helps!)
Laurence, (abandonmodesty)
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