Beneath mainly Oak trees is found an everchanging herbaceous tapestry of ground cover plants, slowly awakening during January and February with sheets of winter aconites and snowdrops in many forms. Hellebores feature too. Narcissus and Dog tooth violets soon follow. All the while as spring rushes into April, the freshness of emerging foliage goes on. As the canopy of foliage shades the undergrowth, flowers abate, only to come alive again as the weather cools down in September and October with the pinks and whites of Colchicum, Cyclamen and Japanese Anemones.

As in many other parts of the garden, autumn goes out in a blaze of glory with many of the trees and shrubs showing berry and leaf colour to take us into the winter months.