This tranquil seating area is nice quiet spot to relax. The low ground cover crescent shaped bed allows a view across into the woodland garden and a feeling of space. Early in the year hellebores add colour in white and pink. In the summer bright orange crocosmia in small groups add vibrancy. The ground cover is purple vincor minor for in the spring and lonicera tidy tips balls give does of shape

The white variegated cornus adds some brightness under the poplar tree screening its base in a difficult area. The red stems add colour for winter

In winter the view from the riverbank looking over the swing seat into the woodland garden