Lady Lister-Kaye's Pond is named after the late Helen Lister-Kaye, Sir John's mother who died in 1979. The rockery garden and its borders is a blaze of herbaceous colour all summer long and the pond is a subtle blend of interests: the gardener and the naturalist. The pond for frogs and newts, dragonflies, water boatmen and lots of wild plants in and out of the water, and the gunnera and purple flags, and many other interesting varieties around the edge the along paths for effect. It is also the house's best face, much photographed from here.

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