The English Garden

Grow with THE FLOW

Enveloped by woodland and grassy hillsides, the garden at Middle Well is blessed with a peacefulness that is broken by little save birdsong and the burbling of a brook that meanders through the heart of the valley. “Everywhere there is the sound of water, flowing along the rill, trickling down the stream or tumbling over a small weir,” says Pam Millward from the magical garden that she and her husband, Neil, have developed in a sheltered vale near the village of Stoke Gabriel in Devon.

Theirs is a garden that enchants in every season, whether awakening from winter with snowdrops, filled with fresh foliage and bulbs in spring, or bewitching with summery flowers. Then, as the days shorten, a crescendo builds with flowering perennials and ornamental grasses coming to the fore among specimen trees and choice

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