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Easton Lodge

The Countess of Warwick commissioned Harold Peto to lay
out Italian and Japanese gardens at Easton Lodge in 1903. Sadly, they were
abandoned in 1950, but much restoration work has been done; and the gardens
are now regarded as "a delight". A tenbodai (viewing platform) looking
out over the lakes now stands where there was once a Japanese tea house.
Real Japanese Garden, nr Carmarthen

The garden display that won a gold medal and the Best
in Show award at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2001 has been recreated at the
Garden of Wales, its new permanent home. The miniature Japanese landscape
designed by Professor Masao Fukuhara brings together three traditional styles
- pond and spring, dry stone and tea garden. Professor Fukuhara hand-picked
the natural materials he needed, listening to the 'voice' of each stone and
placing it precisely within the design according to its character and sexuality.