A very intensive, productive garden stretching to two acres with different garden rooms full of annuals and biennials for picking for the house or table. There is a new vegetable garden, herb and fruit garden. The Oast garden has an extravagant mix of colour and structure, Salvias, cardoons, artichokes - brilliantly coloured dahlias, zinnias, gladioli, cannas, jungly corn and banana foliage.

The constant supply of favourite flowers, (cut hard for Sarah Raven's flower arranging courses) comes from the large cutting garden where the central four beds are filled with hardy and half-hardy annuals and biennials with two or even three different crops in the same square foot of soil in one calendar year. The second growing season is manned by predominantly half hardy annuals which take us through high summer into autumn and some of these are replaced as they go over with biennials.