A century on...

It is just on 100 years since Edna Walling bought the land on which she built her home Sonning and established a nursery as a base for her work as a landscape designer. And 100 years since she started "devising an adventure in rural development", a community of gardeners living in an English-style village. In 1923 she purchased land adjacent to her own property that she subdivided and sold to people wishing to be involved in her vision. She called the village Bickleigh Vale.
I wonder how she would see her legacy a century later.

#bickleighvale100years

Sonning, 2022.

Bickleigh Vale Rd, May 2022.