Mary Caroe obituary

My mother, Mary Caroe, who has died aged 81, was often found “head down and bottom up” in a flowerbed at her home, Vann, near Godalming, Surrey. She and her husband, Martin, from a family of ecclesiastical architects and Nobel prizewinning physicists, were gifted Vann in 1969.

It was a huge challenge. The house, partly Arts and Crafts, needed repairs; the skylights leaked and Mary would line up an assortment of chamber pots on the main staircase to catch the rain. While “the bones” remained from the original garden design, including a Gertrude Jekyll water garden, ground elder and bindweed were rampant.

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