THE GARDEN

The two and a half acres of mainly walled garden provide the backdrop for the Cluniac Gatehouse. 

 

The garden as it exists today was started in 1963 by the present owners mother. As a keen plantswoman the garden has many unusual and interesting specimens.

 

The large lawns are enhanced by harbaceous borders and lead up the sloping site that has been terraced. As you weave your path up the garden there is a fine mulberry tree and a statuesque monkey puzzle tree forming a canopy at the end of the exuberantly planted gravel borders. A small white garden is tucked away amongst the formal beech hedge that borders the old tennis court. The garden culminates in an arboretum and a more natural environment looking down across the valley. 

 

A kitchen garden has been started in the old washing green, that will be surrounded by a beech hedge on stilts. A herb garden is also taking shape in the courtyard of the old farm buildings.

 

Further projects for the garden include clipped hornbeam pyramids and rejeuvenating some of the borders closest to the house.