Welcome to Glen Villa Gardens

Come in and visit Pat's re-creation of the old Glen Villa Inn.

Imagine taking a nap on this bed!

In the dining room the table is set as it might have been on the night that Glen Villa Inn burned to the ground. Pat has just finished making the "rug". In the foreground, spindles suggest a staircase to an imaginary second story.

Pat made the rug using pieces of Glen Villa Inn's china that were burnt and broken in the 1909 fire that destroyed the hotel.

Pat deliberately broke old family china to use for the place settings to link her family with this story from the past.

A covered bridge is reborn as Bridge Ascending. These twisted girders formed part of a local historic landmark, the covered bridge at the mining village of Capelton. Built in 1842 it was closed to traffic in 1961, but before that, Norman and his family crossed it regularly. The bridge burned to the ground in 2002.

From the picnic area on the Belvedere look across the meadow to Bridge Ascending, a sculpture that rewrites the story of an old covered bridge.

You may be thirsty after your stroll through the meadow, so why not join the party for a bite to eat!

Balancing acts are child's play! After lunch a granddaughter walks the fence that separates the Belvedere from The Asian Meadow.

No fly-fishing allowed! In Chinese paintings, families are often represented as animals. Following that tradition, Pat's husband and five children swim mid-air above the stream that wanders through the meadow. One is swimming against the current - isn't it always the way?

A landscape in trouble. Jacques, Pat's right-hand man, walks across the mess Pat created when she started moving earth around. (Don't even ask why!)

An environmental delight born from disaster. In winter the pond is cleared for skating.

A tadpole becomes a frog - more than the landscape is born anew. In the summer the pond is a refuge for wildlife.

The rich soil grows things larger than life! You have to laugh.