Greencombe, Porlock, Somerset

Three and a half acre woodland garden occupying a narrow strip of land along the north Somerset coast near Porlock created by Joan Loraine from 1966. During spring the mossy ground fills with erythroniums, the dog's tooth violets that she loved, their delicate white, yellow, pink and mauve flowers held above rosettes of fleshy leaves, sometimes mottled bronze. Typical acid loving shrubs feature and a walled garden begins to stir below a spreading magnolia.