Box topiary at West Green Garden - see lollipop trees planted in hearts

Variation on a Theme

One of several wicker potato planters at West Green Garden

The Nyphaeum Garden

Steps with water running down the rill from the fountain designed by Quinlan Terry 

One of the wall decorations designed by Kenneth Turner and made from Victorian garden implements

Pergola supported on round dry stone plinths

The Rotunda which acts as the pivot around which the gardens revolve

The Mausuoleum. Used as a garden seating area not as a burial chamber

The West Rill planted with yellow musk and iris its straight line is broken by stone edged whirl-pools.

Temple Arbour built mid 1770 in Tuscan doric style.

Through the pillars to the left can be seen the Great Cascade and to the right the Witch House - contrasting classical virtue with pagan ritual

Charcoal Burner's camp in an old diorite quarry. 

In 2006 the production of charcoal was still a valuable by product of Hestercombe's woodland management