February 2, 2004

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  Rosemary Verey’s Garden                      Picture and Enhancement by Chris Duffy

  
  

  Here is one of my favorite pictures from the trip my husband and I took to England some years ago.  Many of the larger mansions have gardens that you can pay to go through and this was one such garden.  Come to find out this lady was a gardening guru know the far and wide for some of the gardens she had planned and mapped out for people around the world, including some in our home state of Texas.  Dottie, the wife of the other couple with us, was thrilled to even be in the garden of the famous Rosemary Verey.  We had no thoughts of actually meeting her.  My husband was roaming around looking at other parts of the garden and happened to meet the lady as she sat in her study with the windows and doors wide open.  He talked to her for several moments before he realized that it was . . . Rosemary.  When he came back to us and told us that he’d actually met Rosemary, Dottie didn’t believe him.  Was she ever thrilled when we all made our way over that direction and met her herself.  I’m sure Rosemary had more pressing matters to attend to than to visit with some tourists, but she was most gracious and we chatted for about 10 minutes.  Dottie was on cloud nine when we left.    

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