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The Stable Beds
This is the point of entry for the garden and where visitors
can park their cars in front of the (somewhat ramshackle) eighteenth-century
stable block. An underground stream surfaces in the bog garden
and feeds into a stone trough in the stable yard. A huge gunnera,
with leathery green leaves five feet across, and a plethora of
shuttlecock ferns revel in the soggy soil, and Clematis 'Little
Nell' festoons an old yew tree.
Opposite, in the shelter of a birch, is one of the most spectacular
shrubs in the garden, the delectable Rock's Peony. Visit in late
spring to encounter its scented plate-sized blooms of waxy white
suffused with claret.
The Bog Garden >
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