A contemporary plantsman’s garden set within the historic walls of the kitchen garden of Scampston Hall. Designed by Piet Oudolf in 9 different ‘garden rooms’; each with its own atmosphere, and separatedby neatly clipped beech hedges. A 400m border walk contains many unusual spring and autumn flowering shrubs including several Paeonia rockii. In other areas, colourful perennial meadow planting contrasts with a peaceful silent garden with its reflective pool and clipped yew pillars and two-tone ‘waves of grass’ containing close mown lawn and Molinia caerulea ‘Poul Petersen’ grass.