Middle Well

The garden lies snugly in the bottom of a well-watered valley. There was no garden around the Georgian farmhouse, so virtually everything; the planting of desirable perennials and shrubs, the building of walls and the diverting of the stream, is the work of Pam and Neil’s own hands. Outside the enclosing walls the woodland garden, a densely planted mix of perennials, grasses, shrubs and trees, flanks both banks of the stream and merges into an arboretum and old woodland beyond.

Little Dartmouth Farm

In 2005 the award-winning restoration and remodelling of both farmhouse and outbuildings was begun and Dan Pearson was engaged to design the garden and oversee the landscaping. Biodiversity and sustainability were key priorities and, as the design started on the periphery and worked inwards, native hedges and trees were planted, blending the garden into the landscape. In front of the house the garden is kept simple; borders of clipped Phillyria, Erigeron and Phlomis beside the terrace, further on mown and long grass, trees and a pond and beyond these the encompassing views of the sea.