David Hicks spent the last years of his life living increasingly in the country, in Oxfordshire, where he created one of the most extraordinary gardens in England.
This view shows the crenellated Gothick pavilion of his own design which he was given by his wife Pamela as a 60th birthday present.
Hicks designed several gardens around the world. These, together with his own and other gardens both historical and contemporary, can be seen in his last book, My Kind of Garden, which he was working on when he died in 1998.
David Hicks even designed his own coffin, in which he 'lay in state', according to his precise instructions, in the ground-floor room of this garden pavilion.
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