THE GARDENS
The gardens at Marle Place Farm change on an almost daily basis, bursts of colour appear over night in springtime and other more architectural plants take on different forms depending upon the season, weather and time of day. There are formal terraced lawns, herbaceous borders, a 19th C scented garden, croquet lawn, swimming pool terrace, rock garden, 1920’s grass tennis court all enclosed within a series of wonderfully established and dense yew hedges.
On the fringes of the garden there are mature Cedars, a Weeping Lime, Conifers, Horse Chestnuts, Acers and Magnolias.. There is also a magnificent Silver Birch avenue leading down to a Victorian orangery with views of a pretty natural stream whose banks are strewn with bluebells and wild garlic with woodland beyond.
The kitchen garden has two 19th C long green houses, raised vegetables beds, a fruit cage and a series of small parterres with ornamental planting enclosed by low box edging and gravel pathways.
To the south west of the house is a meadow laid out with specimen trees and a path leading to a lake edged with bulrushes and filled with waterlillies during the summer months.
There are also paddocks and woodland beyond that extends to approx. 25 acres.