What you can do when Mama marrys well

Hidcote Gardens are the creation of one Lawrence Johnston. He was an American who came to the UK to fight in the Boer War.The powers that be were so astounded that any foreigner would do this, they gave him British citizenship two weeks after he arrived. After the war, Lawrence and his mother searched Europe for a place to settle and chose the village of Hidcote buried in the Cotswold countryside - a barren, windswept place where Lawrence determined to build a garden. After buying the Manor house, the village and lots of the surrounding farmland (THAT'S what you can do when Mama marrys well - twice) Lawrence set to work and over the next 40 years he travelled the world gathering plants for his outside rooms. My favorite was in the wilderness room- a maple tree with leaves the colour of boiled shrimp. Here are some pictures. It was a magical place. Let's hear it for Mama and her divorce lawyer!