The alpine wall and scree in the rock garden are full of colour:
- Hypericum cerastioides, carpet of yellow with spicy scent exuding from the plant
- View from the road coming from the East gate takes in the Rhododendron ‘White Pearl’, (mass of pink blossom), at the edge of the upper woodland garden
- Halesia carolina, west of the pond. Later flowering than H. tetraptera, also not as impressive in stature. White flowers