Freeze frame
THE garden at Bryan’s Ground was born in the winter of 1993, when David Wheeler and Simon Dorrell moved into their new home on the border between Herefordshire and Wales. Waking early on the first morning, they saw it had snowed during the night. They went straight outside and began to pace out the structure for a new garden, their footsteps confident and unhesitating in the fresh snow.
‘Eye-catching contrasts of colour and texture draw the gaze’
Bryan’s Ground was built between 1911 and 1913 for Elizabeth and Mary Durning Holt, the youngest daughters of a wealthy Liverpool cotton broker. It was designed in the Arts-and-Crafts style so fashionable at the time,
