A sweet shop of a garden
Garden designer Pauline Caroline Jones visits the Black Shed Flower Farm near Sherborne.
Published in November ’20
‘I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.’ Claude Monet
A glimpse of a sea of vibrant colours dancing in the breeze as you approach the Black Shed Flower Farm tells you that you are in for a treat. Once inside, the experience is similar to being in an old- fashioned sweet shop with rows and rows of jars filled with brightly coloured sugar candies. Swathes of deliciously bold annuals, biennials and perennials span over two fields in abundance, breaking every rule in the garden designer’s handbook.
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