Following instructions from Richard Radcliffe's booklet, Recording Gardens we set about measuring up the garden at Tunbridge on a cold and very windy day in May. My neighbour Sam not only supplied the 30m tape measure, but patiently held the other end while I wrote the down the numbers and sketched out the geometry on a flapping sheet of paper. The booklet, based on an Australian Garden History seminar describes the practical details of measuring and recording a garden, but the author also alludes to the challenges of working outdoors in dense fog or freezing rain. In this respect and perhaps because this was my first attempt, I liked the way the conditions mirrored those described in Mr Radcliffe's book.Here's the first draft, produced in Illustrator - there is more to do, a legend, more details and description - but already it is a pleasing map.
