The best thing about today's national garden open scheme was that we can all be nosey neighbours. We get an opportunity to snoop around other people's gardens and see things from a perspective that we rarely can. Ruthin Castle was open today but it was the ordinary, everyday gardens that always prove to be the best.
Take 46 Mwrog Street. Here was a garden that was in its third year of opening. It's a long rear garden but it has an unusual kink in it. It draws in part of next door's, thanks to a bequest. And it is at this poin tthat you can see a tranquil semi-circular gem, above.
Mwrog Street is all too familiar but here you can also see the backs.
Further up was 153 Mwrog Street. This was the garden's first time of public access. Views from the top of the long rear garden that stretches towards Llanfwrog cemetery are across the rears of the upper part of Mwrog Street towards the Clwydian Hills.
No. 6 Park Road was also open for the first time. Here was a most unusual garden that was actually detached the house itself. The terrace of four each has a garden in layers that move back progressively from the terrace itself, each having access to their plot via a path. Very intriguing. Its rear gave a back view of Capel Cwrw.
The most surprising garden was at 14 Cae Seren. Here was an ordinary semi-detached, council-owned retirement bungalow that after five years of work makes full use of what is a modest plot to cram in as much as possible, including a kitchen garden and small pond in the handkerchief-sized square rear. At the entrance was the combined fragrance of roses and lavender in a front garden bursting with colour. This was also no. 14's first year of opening.
