The Pinetum looking towards the stone seats with young larches
Robin put stone seats in the Pinetum and planted larches behind to provide shade. Sybil referred to this as her 'cave'.
The design, by Fred Spencer, for the stone seat known as "Mother's Tomb", accompanied by a handwritten note 'This is the first garden ornament I designed - I think in the mid 50s. It was the year of the Leeds Music Festival Centenary [1958] as theā¦