Homerton College, Cambridge

The impressive range of buildings overlook a large lawn enclosed by a row of smaller trees and shrubs with a path through long grass. To the south of the site is a fine lime tree avenue which then turns along an old field boundary; the College is obliged to maintain this avenue for ever.

Along the south side of the buildings is a terrace with two recesses. One is planted in memory of a disabled student with Mediterranean and grey-leaved shrubs arranged around a sundial. The other recess is a memorial garden for head gardener, Joan Salter, and is filled with large-leaved purple and yellow shrubs growing over paving and through gravel.

Also to the south are the remains of an orchard established by Joan Salter, and along the western boundary a planting of hornbeams and North American conifers screen the playing fields from the railway line.

A new library has recently been built in the south corner of the grounds, which also provides car parking spaces for visitors. The new planting around the building is dominated by a specimen Caucasian wing nut.

Further north, but within the College grounds, is Trumpington House which has a collection of hollies, a fine purple beech, cedar, evergreen oak and large yews around the front lawn.

To the rear is a fallen mulberry, a Wellingtonia and the remains of a small orchard. The Victorian house has vertical metal rods to the eaves to support climbing plants. Along the north drive is a boundary brick wall supported by metal buttresses with climbers and shrubs planted by Joan Salter.