The Gardens at Shrubs Farm

Since 1994, the gardens, orchard and fruit cage to the South, have been created and a park of some 50 acres now surrounds the house. The gardens include:

• Fruits Orchards, including cherries, nuts, apples and pears
• Kitchen Garden
• Rose Garden
• Perennial and Shrub Borders
• A number of Ornamental Trees
• Pond
• Several formal walkways, including the pleached hornbeam

Garden Gallery

• May Highlights
• June Highlights
• Miscellaneous

May Highlights

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Alchemilla and Hostas

Around the Duck Pond

Bleeding Hearts

Border in bloom

By the Barn

Camelia

Cornflower and London Pride

Geoff at work

Geranium Sylvatium

Hedychium Densiflorum

Helleborus Orientalis

Jerusalem Artichokes

Mahonia Bealei

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Pond-side Borders

Red Peony

Road-side Roses

Tree Hydrangea, Spirea and Clematis

View down the scented walk

View towards the house (1)

View towards the house (2)

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June Highlights

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Artichokes

Borders

Borders in bloom

Borders in bloom

In bloom

Lawns and borders

Peonies in the border

Rose borders

The Duck Pond

Vegetable patch

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Miscellaneous

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2003 Essex Gardens Trust Annual Lecture by Roy Lancaster

2003 Essex Gardens Trust Annual Lecture by Roy Lancaster

Pleached Hornbeam walkway, with a boxed Rosemary base

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