25 favourite garden benches as shown originally on the blog Sign of the Times (signothetime.wordpress.com)

1. 25 favourite garden benches from
Sign of the Times

2. Belcombe Court
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Opens for one day per year in
aid of the Red Cross

3. Bodnant
A National Trust garden in
Wales

4. Boom
Public planting and bench
outside the Boom restaurant at
the University Shopping
Village, Seattle

5. Chelsea Physic Garden
A registered charity, which is
open to the public in London.
It is Britain’s second oldest
botanic garden, dating back to
1673

6. Dyrham Park
A National Trust garden in
Gloucestershire

7. Euridge Manor
A private garden near Colerne,
Wiltshire

8. Great Dixter
Found in the porch

9. Hergest Croft
A private garden open to the
public in Herefordshire

10. Kilver Court
A private garden open to the
public in Somerset

11. LacockAbbey
A National Trust garden in
Wiltshire.
The bench is called Strata - as
shown at the garden’s sculpture
exhibition in autumn 2013

12. Monastery Garden
A public garden at Litomysyl in
the Czech Republic
This ‘bench’ was being shown
in an art exhibition in the
garden in 2010

13. Monkton Park
A public Park in Chippenham,
Wiltshire
Flooding on Christmas Eve 2013

14. Olympic Sculpture
Park
A public park in Seattle, USA

15. Painswick Rococo
Garden
A private garden open to the
public in Gloucestershire

16. Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park
Early morning at the
Paralympics, London 2012

17. Royal Botanic Gardens
Inside the Palm House at Kew
Gardens, London

18. Royal Festival Hall
Roof Garden
A public garden at London’s
Southbank

19. Royal Hospital Chelsea
Open during the RHS Chelsea
Flower Show in London

20. Scampston
A private garden open to the
public in Yorkshire
These ‘benches’ are sited in the
part of the garden designed by
Piet Oudolf

21. St. Botolph Row
Public planting found in
Aldgate, London

22. The Bloedel Reserve
A garden open to the public on
Bainbridge Island, Seattle

23. The Royal
Horticultural Society,
Wisley
Inside the Glasshouse at the
RHS’s garden in Surrey

24. University Shopping
Village
Public planting in Seattle, USA

25. “Remember me”
A poignant tribute on a
memorial bench set within the
public planting at College
Green, Bristol

26. At Home
Opens to the public via the
internet - see VPs Open Garden
and Veg Plotting

27. A Veg Plotting production
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Material originally shown on:
signothetime.wordpress.com