Malthouse Farm

The garden slopes down from the house, giving views across the landscape to the South Downs. From the pot-filled terrace outside the house, the garden is terraced with brick and stone paths running through raised beds and thickly planted borders. Hornbeam hedges divide the garden into intimate spaces, leading through the orchard, underplanted with wildflowers, to the snail mound from which one can admire the view.

Clinton Lodge

The garden is divided into a series of formal enclosed garden spaces, starting with double herbaceous borders mainly in blue and white. The figure of a muse, glimpsed through an arch, leads onto an arcade planted with Rosa longicuspis, which forms an axis running to the potager, the herb garden, the pear walk, awash with pink-flowered Japanese anemones, and the wild garden.

Town Place

The English Roses are the great sight of the garden and the Rose Garden alone has over 500 plants. Adjacent is the Circus, an almost circular garden, planted with Miscanthus and yews. This enthralling garden also has a 150ft purple-themed herbaceous border, a herb garden, a white garden, a hornbeam walk, a potager, a magnificent 800-year-old oak growing on the bank of the former farm pond and, the tour de force of the garden, hornbeam hedges clipped to resemble a ruined Romanesque church, complete with cloisters.