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I live in a quiet corner of Coton, a village just west of the city of Cambridge. The house is one of three in a tiny cul-de-sac close to the village church. The houses are all on the south side of the road facing gardens on the north side; long back gardens stretch south to farmland. My own house is the easternmost of the three and to the east of it are farm buildings and a farm track, The main building is an old black barn with, at one end, an ancient dovecote recently restored.
	The boundaries between the three gardens are marked only by posts and wire; there are no fences and except, between the houses, no formal hedges, so that they appear to flow into one another in places. They are dominated by two huge weeping willows at the southern end of the middle garden.

Garden Plan

1. The front garden is open to the road and stretches round the east side of the house.
2. The terrace surrounds the back of the house and is raised above the rest of the garden. A door from the sitting room leads out to it through a conservatory; then steps take one down to a curved lawn.
3. The herb garden to the west of the lawn is composed of small beds divided by paving.
4. A curved border runs down the eastern side of the lawn and, with a service tree (Sorbus domestica) planted just beyond the borders's tip provides its southern boundary.
5. A long border lies along the western bundary of the garden from near the front of the house behind the herb garden to the pond.
6. The pond is crossed by a bridge linked to the herb garden by a paved path. Two sloping beds surround it on the southern side.
7. An island bed to the east of the pond is separated from it by a grass path. It is mainly planted with white and yellow flowering plants.
8. The vegetable garden is roughly square, surrounded by paving, and has the greenhouse (Gr) on its southern edge.
9. The spring garden is an informal area to the east of the vegetable garden with spring bulbs planted in grass beneath an ornamental cherry and a laburnam.
10. The bottom end of the garden is separated from the rest by a rather ragged rose hedge. It contains a garden shed (S) and a polythene tunnel house (PT) used to house young plants, as well as compost heaps and garden rubbish and a great many weeds, nettles and brambles!

There is also a seasonal look at the garden in spring and the plants that are a feature of it then when it is probably at its best.

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