The Laskett

This week, I bring you some edited snippets from an article I wrote on one of the most well known - and controversial - gardens in Britain, The Laskett, created by Sir Roy Strong. Photographer Andrew Montgomery took these photographs on a wintry February day in 2016, including some brilliant portraits, most of which weren’t used in the original article. Full of theatricality and topiary with not much laissez faire to soften the edges, it’s not the kind of garden I am normally drawn to, but you can’t help but marvel at the imagination and tenacity of the couple who turned a bare field into such a complex work of art.