This beautiful former Cistercian monastery has an expansive garden including topiary, herbaceous borders, lakes, bog garden, rockery and a formal walled kitchen garden, as well as many glorious mature trees and the highest powered fountain in the country. In late summer the herbaceous border running alongsid the canal is in full flow, a blousy mix of dahlias, sedums, heleniums, crocosmias and helianthemum, while beds in the kitchen garden are brimming with rows of fat cabbages, lettuces and other edible produce, as well as flowers like red and yellow Ipomoea lobata otherwise known as Spanish flag, hoisting itself up hazel wigwams.
