The flower garden area stretches south of the main house and includes the perennial borders in the "Outer Sanctum," the Stable Close, the Skinny Vista, and the Enclosed Flower garden, also known as the "Inner Sanctum."

The main axis from the house and deck runs through the perennial borders to a fountain pool set against the Stable wall in the area called the Stable Close. The Stable Close is otherwise known as the "Black Garden" because it features plants with dark foliage and flowers. The Skinny Vista sits outside the north wall of the "Inner Sanctum." These beds awaken in spring with mostly blue and yellow bulbs, followed by perennials of similar hues throughout the remainder of the season.

A tall cedar fence separates the perennial borders, Stable Close, and Skinny Vista from the "Inner Sanctum." Inside is a series of colour-themed square and triangular beds. These beds, together with the surrounding enclosures and permanent plantings of hardy perennials, roses, grasses, trees and shrubs, create a formal framework in which to display intermingled informal plantings of annuals, biennials, and half-hardy and tropical plants.

A vegetable garden fills the beds in the middle of the "Inner Sanctum" and is watched over by our stately scarecrow, "Miss Gertrude Jekyll," who is keeping an eye on our colour theories. Behind Miss Jekyll, linked by a circular path, curving beds represent the colours of the rainbow.