| The 11 acre gardens of How Caple Court date from Edwardian times and
are high above the River Wye with views toward the Forest of Dean and
the Welsh Mountains. Formal terraces with yew hedges, pools, statues and
a traditional rose garden contrasts with less formal plantings of mature
trees and shrubs. These important "Arts and Crafts" gardens, in their
heyday immaculately formed, have with the passing of time relaxed into
an intensely romantic semi-wilderness, redolent of a lost "Golden
afternoon." A magnificently atmospheric Italianate water garden can be
discovered almost hidden in the surrounding woodland. |
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