I’ve just been reading your talk at the AA, which I tremendously enjoyed.
You understood a lot about Cedric. I remember a charming piece about a
visit he paid with Patrick Keiller and someone else to obscure sites in
Kent. It was a lot of fun and somewhat inconclusive, a Cedric specialty.

Your project at Hadspen is enviable. I like your adventurous approach
to the whole idea of a garden, and the decision to start with architects.
But I’m not convinced by this pattern of paths - I imagine walking down them
and feeling thwarted by all the changes of direction.
Have FOA been talking enough to people who know plants? The zig zags
would presumably be softened by growth, but they would still be zig zags,
and where are the stopping places? There are interesting modernist gardens
of course which concede little to the visitor, but you can usually get a
view from above. I haven’t picked up what kind of overall views are allowed
for in FOA’s plan.

Do you know the garden at Scampston in the East Riding? The most
interesting new one I have seen for a while.

Building Design

Gardens Illustrated Article1.pdf