Bodnant Garden

Photographs of the Laburnum Arch dominate the pictures used to promote Bodnant Garden, examples of what I’ve called elsewhere ‘Kodachrome Icons’.  It’s a convenient simplification of what is an extraordinary, complex place.  My diary notes: ‘Spectacular and beautiful, full of what are to me strange and exotic flowers.  Sweeping formal beds and lawns; romantic glades and rambling paths; views out to the distant untamed hills.’  Generations of the garden’s creators planted trees from America and Asian and today Bodnant is ‘home to 42 UK Champion Trees – the biggest, rarest and best of their kind’.

Photo: Bodnant Garden, Wales, June 2009

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