The garden wraps around three sides of the house, divided by old stone walls and hedges of box, hornbeam, holly and yew. Flowers spilling out of pots and planters and roses and clematis cascading from arches contrast with the clipped architecture of the hedges and lime trees trained as lollipops.
Trees and flowering shrubs grow beside mown paths through the long grass of the wild flower meadow where we are trying to encourage as many wild flowers as possible. There is a mound from which to survey the local hills.
The house and garden has featured in many publications including The English Garden in May 2002 and we have been on numerous Japanese gardening programmes.
James Bolton
As well as managing his own garden, James is a garden historian and designer. He lectures extensively on the history of garden design for NADFAS and the NACF.
He runs his own Garden Tour company Border Lines, with visits to many privately owned gardens in England as well as tours abroad to Italy, France and Spain.
