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| The single acre at Shepherd House is in fact many secret gardens, nestling into each other like Chinese boxes. Like any well planned garden, it reveals itself slowly. Nearest the house, the Millennium garden is planted with lavender, irises, oriental poppies, salvias and much more. | ||||||||||||
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| The central and most arresting feature is an elegant stone rill which flows forty yards beneath rose covered arches which are under planted with nepeta and alliums. The rill connects the central formal pond with a raised pond at the back of the garden which contains four fountains causing the water to overflow down the rill. |
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| From the central pond, the visitor is lead on to other parts of the garden which include a bulb meadow, a woodland garden, a potager, a knot garden and a shrub rose border with rose covered arbor. | ||||||||||||
| Ann uses the garden to plant the flowers she loves to paint and has a special interest in growing tulips, irises, poppies and hellebores. | ||||||||||||
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