The Rill

The rill was our attempt to take advantage of a corner of the garden which sloped away from the house. We dug out and levelled it, making beds on either side of a central rill, stepped up to a yew hedge. On the higher level we planted four wisteria standards on either side (some growing more slowly than others after our cats adopted them as climbing frames) and planted geraniums and peonies underneath. The lower beds were edged with lavender 'Ashdown Forest' but after a couple of very wet winters we have decide to replace these, rather than keep filling gaps. the lower level planting also includes Iris Sibirica (which does better for us than germanica), peonies,  sages ('Caradonna' and 'Mainacht') and geraniums.
The rill is fed from a dragon's head and pumped back from an underground reservoir at the the bottom end.