Patrick
Gwynne was keen to point out that the ten-acre setting of The Homewood
was ‘a woodland garden, not a park’. Lying in the midst of the
woods of Esher Common, the garden is bisected by a stream, flowing to the nearby
River Mole, from which Gwynne created a series of ponds. His father,
Commander Gwynne, had been a skilled gardener, who surrounded their former
house with luxurious bedding, lawns, shrubbery and trees. However, it was not
until the 1960s that Patrick Gwynne began, with the assistance of his friend
and gardener Raymond Menzies, to create the landscape which we enjoy today.
Beneath the willow trees is the Portland stone sculpture Eclipse,
by Bridget McCrumm, 2000.
