Helen's Special Garden means a lot to her - for many different reasons! - Whitehaven in Cumbria - UK

garden patio with table and chairs - nice place to relax and maybe contemplate!

I love to sit here (The patio in the picture above - with friends and family, its where the barbecue is (left of picture) for cooking. Close to the kitchen and easy to nip in and out to replenish glasses with ice cold rose wine, and its where you can see almost every area of the garden.
Its also the place where many of my life decisions were made, where tears have been shed and where laughter has brightened the day.

Garden Deck are with small table and chair. A nice place for a cup of tea - or coffee - or maybe something stronger

This is my deck area, its where you can catch the last glimmers of the sun in the evening, its where I can be found on warm spring/ summer evenings - if it isn't raining - doing any paperwork I may have from work, or where a coffee maybe had after a hard day in the office, its my peaceful corner and I love it, its scented with the Sandalwood at the bottom left of the picture and it smells delicious.

The lawn is an essential part of many gardens. Here the lawn also provides a peaceful setting for the 'Ponder Seat' A quiet place overlooking a small bridge, from which to think life through!

The ponder seat, its where I contemplate and do private thinking, I made some big decisions sitting on this seat during the past year.
Its where the fish leap occasionally, the frogs croak and the dragon fly's hover, its warm in the Summer and catches the sun all day long and well into the evening, its always a pleasant place to sit during any season really, as its surrounded by shrubs that tend to keep the winds away. Opposite the ponder seat is the bridge of dreams, It was built on a dream and it will hopefully stay here in this garden for a few years yet, even when I have left it...

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