Buxus sempervirens in the 1950s with purple cut leaf maple visible beyond the buxus ball (photo courtesy the estate of Hector Hood)
The above photo was taken in the Lady Fairfax garden in the 1950s. The buxus ball has since grown into a small tree and the cut leaf maple is now a magnificent specimen with beautiful twisted trunk and branches. The conifers are gone. In the foreground of the old photo is a section of Hector Hood’s lovely border plantings. The yellow iris are still in the garden but relocated.
The buxus is now a small rounded tree, the wall was relaid in 2012
The twisted trunks of the cut leaf maple Acer palmatum var. dissectum “Ever Red”in winter 2015
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