The Filberts

1 acre garden demonstrating many different styles inc formal garden with lily and fish ponds, parterre with lavender and penstemons. Large informal pond, colourful mixed borders, island beds, architectural foliage and grasses, secluded areas and many clematis. Vegetable garden, fruit cage and orchard.

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Mr & Mrs Prescott

About The Filberts

About one acre of ground which has been gardened by the owners for 30 years, but is continually being developed or altered. The plot is fairly square, which makes division into ‘rooms’ difficult, but a low wall with trellis panels cuts an arc across the garden to end in steps to the top of a large mound, now terraced on one side, which overlooks a large pond with fish and water lilies.

Different gardening themes are explored in separate areas: an ex-swimming pool is now a formal colour themed garden enclosing fish and lily ponds; the large pond has a damp shaded margin under one of the original nut trees; a shade border has two small ponds (‘frog’ ponds) with hostas and day lilies. Near the house there are raised beds for camellias and rhododendrons, and along one side a rose garden in parterre form leads through to a summer house. There are island beds with specific plantings (shrub roses, grasses) and a sixty-metre herbaceous/shrub border. A fruit cage and vegetable area are screened by clematis, with a ‘Japanese’ area of planting hidden behind.

As the garden is now used for teaching RHS courses there is an outdoor classroom near the greenhouses, and student soil plots just inside the orchard area.

Special interests are sweet peas, dieramas, penstemons and late flowering clematis.