'The garden is transported into quite a different league by the series of dotty and delightful follies that the owner has built' RHS Garden Finder The follies provide fun and interest, even a bit of romance and excitement, and a tie with the long tradition of providing garden entertainment. Two of the follies, a dome-roofed fernery made from sunlit wine bottles and a castellated tower which spurts jets of water from its three gargoyles have been recently featured in the book Follies of Europe - Architectural Extravaganzas. The book's flyleaf enthuses: "The folly has given Europe a superb legacy of idiosyncratic, often experimental architecture, ranging from the Baroque and Rococo through Art Nouveau to the present day. Built for pleasure and conceived with passion and self-indulgence, these wonderful buildings reflect and celebrate the individuals who created them........from a contemporary fernery made of wine bottles at Westonbury Water Gardens, Pembridge, to the Villa Padierna's Teatro in Marbella all are testament to imagination and eccentricity." |
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