About 14 Chaucer Road
At the front of the house is a woodland area with copper beech, magnolia, and exochorda (pearlbush) ‘The Bride.’ There is also a small pebbled flowerbed that catches the sun with spurge, yucca, lavender, and alpines.
At the back of the house is a garden designed for winter interest with winter-flowering cherry, maple, yew, smokebush, yucca, palms, pampas grass, viburnum, flowering currant, and a large flowerbed with many perennials including allium, poppies, clematis, roses, and late summer flowers such as phlox, gaura, sedum, and rudbeckia.
Behind this area is an orchard with plum, medlar, damson, and apple trees, under-planted with daffodils, aconites, snake’s-head fritillaries, tulips, anemones, and other spring bulbs. In lucky years the orchard fills up with cow parsley after the bulbs have faded.
At the rear of the garden behind a yew hedge is a landscaped area with informal planting, including roses, lilies, red-hot pokers, lychnis, clematis, achillea, crocosmia, gaura, geum, asters, monkshood, and sage. At the centre of this area is an ornamental weeping pear and to the side are bay trees, pyrocantha, and a fig tree beside the green house.
Behind this semi-formal area is a backdrop of tall trees, including sycamore and willow. A fence separates the garden from Vicars Brook and Coe Fen.
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