The Hermitage |
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Steps up to the entrance courtyard are flanked by topiary yew spirals in beds of Nepeta 'Walker's Low' with Lavender 'Hidcote' and Allium sphaerocephalon. The Long Border contains pillars of Berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea 'Red Pillar' with Allium 'Pinball Wizard', Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low', Matthiola perennis 'Alba' and Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens'. Papaver orientale 'Prinzessin Victoria Louise' and Allium 'Pinball Wizard' in the Long Border. The Long Border contains pillars of Berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea 'Red Pillar' with Allium 'Pinball Wizard', Nepeta racemosa 'Walker's Low', Matthiola perennis 'Alba' and Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens'. The productive garden provides kitchen produce and cut flowers for the house, along with seed-raised plants for the garden. Digitalis purpurea 'Sutton's Apricot' at the end of the Long Border where the formal garden transitions to the meadows in the wider landscape. Steps up to the Long Border provide a formal entrance to the garden from the meadows in the valley. Oxeye daisies, Leucanthemum vulgare, in the meadows in the valley below the formal gardens. Split hazel frames protect these climbing roses on the Coach House from sheep and deer.

The Hermitage

Nestled in the idyllic St Catherine’s Valley near Bath, the gardens of this elegant stone house were re-designed by Arabella Lennox-Boyd in 2015 so that they transitioned into, and related to the wider valley landscape.  Ten years on and the now mature garden is under the care of head gardener Andrew Cannell, who navigates new challenges not least the destructive influence of the local deer.

Location

Near Bath

Season

Early Summer

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