(Photo: Colin Wing)
Three houses in the south-west corner are by the celebrated Victorian architect Norman Shaw (1831-1913). The novelist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) lived at no.75. The poet John Betjeman (1906-2006) prayed that God would protect the square from German bombers in WW2: ‘Lord, put beneath Thy special care, One-Eighty-Nine Cadogan Square.’
A round raised bed, with a collection of David Austen roses, mixed with lychnis, cistus and agapanthus, occupies the centre of the garden. The Kiftsgate rose growing around the summerhouse near the tennis courts is of special interest, with a small mixed border nearby.
The garden lost almost half its plane trees during the 1987 storm, which were replaced with ornamental trees set out in a less formal fashion.
Head gardener: Ric Glenn
