Take a Seat

25 favourite garden benches fromSign of the Times

Belcombe Court

Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire

Opens for one day per year in aid of the Red Cross

Bodnant

A National Trust garden in Wales

Boom

Public planting and bench outside the Boom restaurant at the University Shopping Village, Seattle

Chelsea Physic Garden

A registered charity, which is open to the public in London.

It is Britain’s second oldest botanic garden, dating back to 1673

Dyrham Park

A National Trust garden in Gloucestershire

Euridge Manor

A private garden near Colerne, Wiltshire

Great Dixter

Found in the porch

Hergest Croft

A private garden open to the public in Herefordshire

Kilver Court

A private garden open to the public in Somerset

Lacock Abbey

A National Trust garden in Wiltshire.

The bench is called Strata - as shown at the garden’s sculpture exhibition in autumn 2013

Monastery Garden

A public garden at Litomysyl in the Czech Republic

This ‘bench’ was being shown in an art exhibition in the garden in 2010

Monkton Park

A public Park in Chippenham, Wiltshire

Flooding on Christmas Eve 2013

Olympic Sculpture Park

A public park in Seattle, USA

Painswick Rococo Garden

A private garden open to the public in Gloucestershire

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Early morning at the Paralympics, London 2012

Royal Botanic Gardens

Inside the Palm House at Kew Gardens, London

Royal Festival Hall Roof Garden

A public garden at London’s Southbank

Royal Hospital Chelsea

Open during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London

Scampston

A private garden open to the public in Yorkshire

These ‘benches’ are sited in the part of the garden designed by Piet Oudolf

St. Botolph Row

Public planting found in Aldgate, London

The Bloedel Reserve

A garden open to the public on Bainbridge Island, Seattle

The Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley

Inside the Glasshouse at the RHS’s garden in Surrey

University Shopping Village

Public planting in Seattle, USA

“Remember me”

A poignant tribute on a memorial bench set within the public planting at College Green, Bristol

At Home

Opens to the public via the internet - see VPs Open Garden and Veg Plotting

A Veg Plotting production

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