Chisenbury Priory

This spectacular garden, through which runs a willow-shaded branch of the River Avon, whose banks are obscured by clumps of Hostas and Gunnera, has been planted with great skill and enthusiasm by John Manser. Within the high sheltering chalk walls, a number of smaller gardens, box-hedged to hold in check Iris and Allium, sweet peas and rambling roses, give onto an orchard with mown grass paths winding through the long grass and apple trees.

Moor Hatches

The garden was designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, whose brief was to create a low-maintenance garden relating to the surrounding landscape. The forecourt has wide stone paths and borders of hot-coloured plants. From here a lawn stretches down to the River Avon.  Behind the house the garden around the swimming pool is contained within thatched cob walls. The beds are a mixture of grasses and summer-flowering perennials with blocks of beech hedges to give a permanent structure to this space.