Rose Garden
The Rose Garden is a series of formal beds lined with box hedging. The roses chosen are old shrub roses with a few English Roses to extend the season with the colours that are predominately deepest wine purple to pink.
White Garden
Once more a formal layout of rectangular box beds, with a stone Folly. The planting includes white tulips, Alliums, Phlox, Asters, Achilleas, and the unusual Argyranthemum ‘Powis Castle’ with Melianthus major, Romneya coulteri and a range of peonies and roses. The pergola is a straight copy of the one in the White Garden at Sissinghurst even clothed with the same rose, Rosa mulliganii.
House Terrace
In the summer, the walls of the house are almost overwhelmed with foliage and flowers. Pots are planted with tulips in the spring and tender perennials in the summer.
Yellow & Blue Border
Planting in the Yellow and Blue border on the main lawn include Iris sibirica ‘Silver Edge’, Cephalaria gigantea, Phlomis russeliana, Thalictrum flavum subsp. glaucum and Anthemis tinctoria Sauce Hollandaise.
Double Border
A long and deep double border is backed by a stone wall on one side and a yew hedge on the other, provides an example of planting using repetitions of large plants or of big blocks of smaller plants. Hydrangea ‘Limelight’ is repeated at intervals right through both sides. Sinocalycanthus raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine’ and Actinidia pilosula are some of the more unusual plants.
Woodland Walk
Stewartias, Magnolias, various Cornus including Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’ and a variety of Acers provide a riot of colour in spring and autumn.
Kitchen Garden
The Kitchen Garden was raked up during the Victorian period to take maximum advantage of the heat from the sun. There are four rotational beds growing vegetables, a Hot Border, a rose pergola made from a fallen oak on the estate and a peony border designed to flower for over six weeks.
Photographs curtesy of Country Life.