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This was the last area to be designed by Lord Fairhaven and was completed shortly before his death in 1966.
The main feature of this garden is autumn colour, with the plants selected for strength of colour and ability to grow in the alkaline soil at Anglesey Abbey.
The design of the garden is very similar to that of the Temple Lawn, with the plantings arranged as island beds that prevent a complete view from one end to the next from a fixed point.
In the centre is a circle of Incense Cedars (Calocedrus decurrens 'Berrima Gold') surrounded by another, larger circle of Parrotia persica, a plant grown for its attractive autumn colour.
These circles provide a balance for the temple in Temple Lawn and are positioned to be exactly in line with each other.
The broad, short mown grass path that bisects the Squares marks the line between the two.
The name of the lawn is derived from a statue that stands on the northern edge of the garden, in line with the two circles.
The figure is that of a pilgrim leaning on his staff, in a bay, closed on three sides by a clipped Beech hedge.
One of the highlights of the garden in the autumn is a group of a form of Ash tree, Fraxinus angustifolia subsp.oxycarpa 'Raywood', that starts the autumn with purple leaves changing to yellow before they fall.
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