This is a snapshot, 2 and 3 years into the garden. Some of it is starting to look OK. but most of it is still very much work in progress


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The photos below are all from the Pergola garden. The lavender hedge was spectacular and the rest was coming into shape

A Shepherd Lad

The bed below (called the peanut bed because its shape is that of an unshelled peanut), has a Berberis in it which is the only plant that was in the garden when we arrived - apart from some trees and some spring bulbs. (The Berberis went in 2021)

The Peanut bed, at the beginning of the summer

The Peanut bed in early August

​Earlier this year the rose below  Paul's Himalayan Musk, was a mass of gloriously scented colour. As the years went by it grow over the wall and became huge - and wonderful!  The Verbena Bonariensis came from 3 9cm pots last year and over time took over the whole garden! Probably my favourite plant.

​For several years I worked for Richard Cayeux at Chelsea and he paid me in irises. These are the first ones I had and as time went by, their descendants played an important part in different parts of the garden.

​Planting the silver birches was an early decision, probably because I had them in Crescent Lane and loved them. I think by this stage I'd decided that they're would be a pond and I'd identified this as an important place in which to sit. Later on I decided to pant autumn colour shrubs behind the birches so that I'd see them from my study.