Garden Folk
The garden is home to a whole world of charming characters…
Wind in the Willows
Boy holding basket with two kittens (see the garden of painter Patrice Dubois)
The Green Man
Woodland nymph before sunset
Lady of the Camellias
Some of the garden folk are harder to find:
hiding in the undergrowth…
concealed under a canopy of ivy…
…or lurking in the long grass.
Others are discreetly hiding in plain sight:
The barefoot shepherdess in the spring of 2025, surrounded by wood anenomes.
She has since moved on to new pastures elsewhere…
…and since 2026, another ‘lady of the woods’ has taken up the vigil.
Meanwhile, this little ‘soup dragon’ offers his beer to the slugs…