The garden at Brockholds Manor wears its autumn raiment with a relaxed charm. As the low afternoon sunlight falls across the lawn, it intensifies the warm butterscotch and toffee tones of the beech leaves and glints off the glossy scarlet Rosa rugosa hips in the hedges. In the borders, the textured seedheads of phlomis, sea hollies and alliums stand out against the clipped evergreen forms of box, yew and lollipop bay. This is a mellow garden; a place to linger and enjoy the soft luxury of autumn.
When Juliet and Richard Penn-Clark moved here in 2016, the garden was mostly roughly mown lawn surrounded by a tangle of brambles, thistles and nettles. Yet despite its overgrown state, they were excited by the potential of the three-acre site. As a child, Juliet had been fascinated
