Rill Garden

An elegant water feature garden which echoes the architecture of the house it faces across a lawn. Silvery ornamental pear trees have been clipped into large lollypop standards and these have been underplanted with cubes of box. The planting has been kept deliberately simple, largely in whites and greens. May and June see a first flush of white geraniums and Astrantias alongside the fresh greens of grasses, hostas, ferns and other textural plants. Later summer sees a mass of hydrangeas take over and these forms provide stately interest through winter. Autunm colouring trees have been planted all around.