Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know about you but I love gardens especially once and have lots of

flowers and if you like me you may visit many of the public gardens around the

world well I just got back from the you may visit many of the public gardens around the world.

Well, I just got back from vacation to England.

Well, one of the places that I visited and stayed at

was called Momsbury.

You may have heard of it, because it's considered the oldest town in England.

And the first king of England is actually buried there.

I don't know if this is true, but that's what I was told.

Well at Monesbury, they have the world's famous Abbey House Gardens that are open every day

and you can actually stay there as a guest through Airbnb.

It was beyond exquisite.

It's on about five acres and it truly has some of the most astonishingly beautiful gardens in the world.

Well, because I stayed there, I got to know the owners and found out the history of these beautiful

gardens. And this is what I found out. It had been previously

owned by some nuns and because of financial difficulties they weren't able to keep up the

grounds.

So when the man who purchased it from the nuns, he realized that it had a lot of potential,

but nothing had been done, and it really was just five acres of weeds. He had since died, but his daughter-in-law, who I

got to know pretty well, told us a story that he had love gardening and he saw

such potential there that he spent the rest of his life which was many years making this place beautiful like I said considered one of those beautiful gardens in the world. And she told me he just loved

gardening. He would go every day out to his gardens and make them more beautiful, more elegant, more worthy of what the grounds actually potentially could be.

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