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Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset

Striking 5 acre formal garden created over the last 20 years by Amanda and Simon Mehigan in an attractive Dorset village. Its formal structure of clipped box, yew, bay and hornbeam, ensures that it looks as good in the depths of winter as it does in May and June. A garden with wonderful bone structure as well as delicious planting that reveals itself from spring onwards as snowdrops, hellebores and crocuses begin to flower.

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White Paeonia emodi mixed with self seeded forget-me-nots, aquilegias and scarlet Tulipa sprengeri. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Formal courtyard garden on the west side of the house features box hedging, and flowers such as irises, self seeded aquilegias, thalictrums and peonies, with metal obelisks supporting clematis. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
A pebble path leads beneath rose and clematis arches along the garden's central axis between clipped bay, yew pyramids and fastigiate hornbeams towards the focal point of a stone obelisk. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
A pebble path leads beneath rose and clematis arches along the garden's central axis between clipped bay, yew pyramids and fastigiate hornbeams towards the focal point of a stone obelisk. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Topiary bay and box with blue forn of Iris germanica. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Formal vegetable garden with castellated yew walk below. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Foxgloves and aquilegias in the evening sun. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Summerhouse surrounded by bog and streamside planting including hostas, candelabra primulas and yellow flag irises with avenue of fastigiate hornbeams above. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Summerhouse surrounded by bog and streamside planting including hostas, candelabra primulas and yellow flag irises with avenue of fastigiate hornbeams above. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Embothrium coccineum, the Chilean firebush, surrounded by self seeded aquilegias and forget-me-nots, below an avenue of red oaks, Quercus coccinea. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
A pebble path leads beneath rose and clematis arches along the garden's central axis between clipped bay, yew pyramids and fastigiate hornbeams towards the focal point of a stone obelisk. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Formal courtyard garden on the west side of the house features box hedging, standard clipped Portugese laurels, Prunus lusitanica, and flowers such as irises, self seeded aquilegias, thalictrums and peonies. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Formal courtyard garden on the west side of the house features box hedging, metal obelisks supporting clematis and flowers such as irises, self seeded aquilegias, thalictrums and peonies with steps leading up to rose and clematis arches over a pebble path. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Formal vegetable garden. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Grassy walk through the new orchard, with stone obelisk and bench. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Topiary bay and box with blue forn of Iris germanica. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Pond with yellow flag iris, Iris pseudacorus, and summerhouse beyond. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Summerhouse surrounded by bog and streamside planting including hostas, candelabra primulas and yellow flag irises with avenue of fastigiate hornbeams above. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Vivid red Tulipa sprengeri mix with forget-me-nots and white flowered Paeonia emodi below an avenue of oaks. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
Vivid red Tulipa sprengeri mix with forget-me-nots and white flowered Paeonia emodi below an avenue of oaks. The Old Rectory, Netherbury, Dorset, UK
all images copyright Carole Drake