At the far corner of the garden, in the shade of a large flowering cherry, we have tried to create an area of woodland-style planting that links naturally into the adjacent red and gold border and also leads the eye on to the field and woods beyond. Here the main interest is in late winter and spring, beginning with snow drops and winter aconites, along with anemone nemorosa, anemonella, erythronium and hepatica transsilvanica, but we have extended the season of interest with some later flowering shade lovers such as varieties of dicentra formosa, polygonatum hirtum, and the toad lily, tricyrtis formosa. Cyclamen hederifolium and cyclamen coum provide welcome splashes of colour in autumn and winter. The cherry tree itself is host to a young rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ and the climber 'Paul Noel', which is just beginning to get established.