I haven’t been to Benton End since January 2020, pre-COVID, before the decision that it might be taken on by the Garden Museum.

It’s the Suffolk house where Cedric Morris and Lett Haines had their idiosyncratic art school after a fire burnt down their previous house nearby in Dedham.  In 2020, there was almost nothing left of the garden where he cultivated irises in the 1950s, only a sense that it might be restored – gardens survive mysteriously, not least in the plants looked after by his executors, including a gift today of plants from the garden of the painter, John Morley.

In 2020, not much survived of the 1950s garden, but I was persuaded the project was very worthwhile.  Now the garden is flourishing and there are ambitious plans for the house:-