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One of the hooped steel fgures The boundary wall frames what the family
designed by Ian Kitson stands calls the Beech Tree garden because of the
amid white willow herb, Fagus sylvatica in one corner. The planting
Allium sphaerocephalon and here picks up on the tree’s silver trunk, with
Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’. Lychnis coronaria, corncockles and nigella. ‑

GARDEN GUIDE
Garden orientation South-easterly. Soil Clay. Special features Mature trees, including
an old cherry, a silver-stemmed Fagus sylvatica and three Crataegus x lavalleei
‘Carrierei’; plantings of Pinus mugo var. mughus and Pittosporum tobira ‘Nanum’;
and grasses, including Stipa gigantea ‘Gold Fontaene’. Design Ian Kitson FSGD,
020 7723 0043, iankitson.com. To visit Fairlight End, Pett Road, Pett, Hastings, East
Sussex TN35 4HB, 07774 863750, chrishutt@btopenworld.com, is open to groups
of ten or more people, by arrangement, until the end of September 2015.

ILLUSTRATION SCOTT JESSOP

Narrow steps wind down
through the garden
beneath an archway of
indigenous trees.

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