This 'secret' garden is tucked away behind the Mulberry Factory Shop and Designer Shopping Village at Shepton Mallett. Formerly the grounds of a factory, it is an interesting blend of restored industrial landscape - mill ponds and mill race with a 19th century railway viaduct in the background - and some inspired modern planting.
There are quiet corners such as this little stone roundhouse, used for small weddings...
But also bold planting of colourful shrubs and perennials.,
An extensive rockery and alpine garden..
The garden was designed in the 1950's to re-create a Chelsea Gold Medal winning garden. At that time the site was offices and factory buildings for the Showering company - inventors of Babycham.
The stone for the rockery and for some of the walls and paths came from all over the country. Apparently the empty Babycham lorries, having delivered their little bottles of 'sparkling perry', would be loaded with stone for the return journey.
The original mill on the site is thought to have been established around 1500, using the waters of the River Sheppey. More than 500 years later, the garden is a very quiet and beautiful spot.
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