By Kind Permisson of Jo and Gavin Bacon

A Private Visit especially for Dorset Gardens Trust has been arranged with the owners of  this small but most interesting contemporary garden with interventions by Harris Bugg Studio within a varied ecological ANOB and historic landscape of Benville Lane, mentioned in Thomas Hardy’s Tess.

Within the curtilage there are new herbaceous borders, woodland planting, walled vegetable and cutting garden, cloud pruned topiary, ha ha, ornamental productive trees and moat which is a listed Ancient Monument.

The garden has featured in Country Life