Two very different ones at Waddesdon Manor

Benches at RHS Garden Hyde Hall

Block oak seating - well almost a bench, just divided into quarters.

A Hyde Hall bench in the meadow

Benches in the Hilltop Garden

By the Barn

In the Dry Garden

In Road Field

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010

Combat Stress Therapeutic Garden

An Uprising of Kindness Garden

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A bench with a message. Created by Martin Cook

Bench among the flowers

At Loseley Park in the lovely walled garden

Benches at Chelsea Flower Show 2010

Christian before Dior

and before they placed the jacket strategically.

Not so much a bench, more a Shell house sofa!

A bench for the football World Cup!

The ultimate Indian bench

This bench was in the Dyslexia Research Trust garden highlighting some of the ground breaking work they carry out. The blue glass water feature represents the focussed, tinted light helping affected people to read.

(see more at www.dyslexic.org.uk )

Another of those Wisley benches. This one was in the sponsor's garden, The M & G Garden.

A bench that is more a flower arrangement, or a fairy bench, maybe.

By the train track

For watching the trains go by or viewing the rhodies

E G again

Among the rhododendrons

Exbury North

- passengers for the use of on the Exbury Steam Railway

Exbury Gardens

Under the pergola

Exbury Gardens

Around a tree

Exbury Gardens

Benches with a view of the Beaulieu River

Just in Hyde Park

And looking remarkably like the benches at RHS Garden Wisley.

Coughton Court

Some lovely benches taken by Laura

On the way to Edinburgh!

Abroath & Carnoustie

Stonehaven and along the coast to Montrose

Looking back to Portsoy

Cullen

Little Ferry

Elterwater