Tuesday I was at Chandor Gardens for a lecture, and stuck around afterwards to take some photos.  Even though there was not a lot blooming it is really the hardscape that most interests me about this garden.  It’s been really hard for me to take photos of it that show off what I love about it.

Chandor Gardens is small.   Originally called White Shadows, it was the private garden of Douglas Chandor, a famous English portrait painter who married a Texas heiress and made his home in Weatherford, Texas.  He painted the official portrait of Queen Elizabeth and many other famous persons.  Although his skills were such that he was much sought after, he once said that he only painted to finance his real passion, gardening.  I bet a lot of my readers can relate to that.

Chandor has a lot of long sight lines and a lot of small water features.   One of the central elements is this sunken fountain, which was not turned on,  probably because the garden was not really open to the public at the time I was there.  It is in the middle of a long path that extends to oriental miniatures…