A very small corner of paradise - Loveday Lewes Gee

This book explores the connections linking the history of a place called Llanllyr in West Wales, the people who lived there and their gardens, with the re-creation of the garden and with the family living there now. The story begins with Celtic saints in the Dark Ages and continues with Cistercian nuns in Medieval times, Elizabethan squires, Victorian gentry and, now farmers and entrepreneurs. Llanllyrs story reflects, in microcosm, the wider social history of gardens in Britain. The book has been written in response to the interest shown by visitors coming from all parts of Britian as well as Europe and the United States of America. There are few places which can trace such a long history or that have aspects of that history expressed in a contemporary garden.