36 Thornhill Square

About 36 Thornhill Square

The garden contains hundreds of different varieties of herbaceous perennials, including hardy geraniums and heucheras. Many of the unusual perennials are propagated for sale.

There are old and new shrub and climbing roses, with good specimens of David Austin’s modern English Roses as well as hybrid musks and older roses including Old Blush China and Tuscany Superb. Our dramatic big rambler, Francis E Lester, lost its (dead Silver Birch) support last year, and is being helped to curve over the end wall. We also have two rare examples of ‘old’ new roses – the single Floribunda Dainty Maid and the single hybrid tea Dusky Maiden.

There are many clematis, including Marie Boisselot and C. durandii. There are tender plants in pots on the patio, including Pittosporum tobira and scented pelargoniums, and a small collection of bonsai trees.

The garden begun more than 30 years ago, when it was full of rubble, rough grass and a huge diseased black poplar. It is in a constant state of change as new plants are discovered and somehow made room for. A couple of years ago we created a new short path from the patio, with tall ‘see-through’ beds either side and these are doing very well.