Mary Keen Garden Designer
Created by designer and writer mary keen over the past 13 years the garden has been carved out of what at first appeared to be an unpromising site.
Mary keen garden designer. In july last year we downsized to a garden that is twice as long and twice as wide as a tennis court with an allotment and a half where we grow things to eat and flowers to cut. Much the same was said by the 20th century physicist werner heisenberg. Mary keen is a garden designer author and lecturer.
Set on a slope in a tranquil part of duntisbourne rous the original garden was unappealing with cars parked up to the front door and conifers dominating the planting. She is a frequent contributor to garden magazines and a columnist for the uk newspaper the telegraph. Mary keen garden designer and writer.
Garden designer mary keen explains. M ary keen 75 is an internationally renowned garden designer and writer who has worked in many grand english gardens including at lord rothschild s private house eythrope in buckinghamshire. We also have an enclosed courtyard outside the kitchen with room for a table to eat on sunny days.
Her own garden the old rectory at duntisbourne rous opens for the. The most recent of her five books is paradise and plenty. A rothschild family garden.