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Dorset Garden: 54 Lonnen Road, Colehill

Chris Shaw and Colin Varndell visit a triple-terraced garden to the north of Wimborne

The mid-terrace parterre

It is an Alice-in-Wonderland experience, going through a narrow entrance at the side of a small bungalow and emerging into a dramatic and totally unexpected world of colour spread out below. Jenny Parr and Malcolm Case moved here in 2001, when the garden at No 54 was just a steep slope to the bottom of the hillside.  They immediately decided to terrace the land, taking two years to plan and lay it out. Since then the garden has been maturing beautifully with an amazing collection of plants.

 

 

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