The rill garden: a place of enchantment

If you’re not familiar with the rill garden created by Geoffrey Jellicoe, here’s a lovely introduction that provides sight and sound.

Watch: Shute Garden (4:16 mins) This is a BBC video clip from episode 4 of “The Secret History of the British Garden” by Monty Don.

The moment Monty Don and Suzy Lewis passed through the gate of Shute House Garden, I was instantly transported to a place of enchantment. The water is channeled from the River Nadder into a series of canals, pools and waterfalls. It pours down a series of copper chambers in the rill which create different notes on the musical scale.

Read: House & Garden UK: Drawing on history, philosophy, psychology & art, the gardens of Shute House are Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe’s masterpiece

Watch: More clips from BBC’s The Secret History of the British Garden