The Garden

The nursery is located within our 2-acre garden that we have been gradually developing over the last 18 years, around the River Axe which runs under the house and through the property.

Immediately behind the house hot sunny beds are arranged formally and planted in cool colours. From a neighbouring ash, Rosa ‘Paul’s Himalayan Musk’ overhangs the garden in a pale pink waterfall.

Through a yew rondel is an open area of lawn bordered by a ‘hot’ border, melding into modern planting using perennials and grasses. A deck overhangs the mill leat and looks down onto Gunneras and coloured willows growing in the river-boggy area below.


	Autumn Border

The bridge over the leat leads past an experimental border of annuals and grasses. Behind another yew hedge that is punctuated by a moon window, lies a secret garden, home to a varied collection of hellebores and containing one or two enigmatic features including a ‘dry stream’ inspired by visits to Japan, and a ‘lady in a bath’ of disarrayed grasses.

Crossing another bridge over the river takes the visitor to the enclosed vegetable garden. Running alongside are two parallel borders that are home to a collection of oriental poppies terminating in another rondel of pleached hornbeam.

Next to these borders is a small orchard area surrounded by a hornbeam hedge on stilts and then our specialist nursery, Mill Cottage Plants. The nursery sells many of the plants seen in the garden: perennials, grasses and ferns, and rare traditional Japanese Hydrangeas.


	Kitchen Garden

The garden is open to organised groups of visitors by arrangement under the National Gardens Scheme. Tea, coffee and home-made cakes and be ordered for a summer outing. Please phone 01749 676966 for further details.