Planting in the Plats

I keep going back to Ham House, and not just for the coffee. The gardens always look good and, like all good gardens, the changing seasons mean that there are different thing to enjoy each time.

The gardens are also being worked on and there is often new planting to discover, though it is not usually as obvious as this.

 

The Plats once were featureless lawns laid out in a grid behind the house and now they have shaped beds cut into them and these have been planted. 

The spaces between the pants suggest that they have been given space to grown which would mean that these beds are a permanent feature. I hope so.