Description:Panoramic views over Weirwood reservoir. Exciting 10-acre garden with woodland walks, water gardens and formal borders. Of particular interest, clumps of wild orchids, fine davidia, acers, eucryphia and rhododendrons. Mass planting of different species of meconopsis on the way to ponds

Further details:Legsheath has had past associations with the Master of the Ashdown Forest and Sheriff of Sussex and to this extent there has always been a garden. However, the garden as we see it to-day was largely laid out in 1911 and 1935. It is set high overlooking Weirwood Reservoir with views in all directions. A spring rises in the upper parts of the garden and transforms itself into a stream with a series of falls which feed three large ponds.The water garden at the lower level has large plantings of candelabra primulas, meconopsis and lobelia. Wild orchids have also naturalised in the wetter areas. The woodland paths leading to the largest pond have interesting rhododendrons, magnolias and acers. There is also a Sussex folly and a hornbeam house around the bottom pond.Returning to the upper levels, there is a large bank of azaleas bordering a formal pond with abutilons, eucryphia, daphnes, kalmias and stewartia planted in the other borders.The formal borders between the ice house and the tennis court have the largest davidia in Sussex. There are also various species of cornus and acers in these borders. Above these and surrounding the well are a number of rare trees including pterostyrax hispida, sorbus, tulip tree (aureomarginata) and a good form of acer davidia.The herbaceous borders below the summer house are being replanted and will contain an interesting collection of perennial plants. Below these are a number of bulb borders which are largely planted with tulips and dahlias in late summer