Country Life Trending: May 8, 2021 The terrace is planted with alliums ‘Purple Sensation’, ‘Globemaster’, ‘Violet Beauty’, A. giganteum and A. christophii. Photography by Clive Nichols Credit: Clive Nichols Inheriting a confusion of styles, the new owners of Goldingtons, in Hertfordshire, spearheaded its coherent restoration with a bold new swimming-pool garden, discovers Tiffany Daneff. Photography by Clive Nichols. ‘We bought the view and the house came with it,’ says Sue Roberts, indicating south-west towards a broad chalk valley, along which run the clear waters of the River Chess. When she and her husband, Richard, moved here in 2016, however, there was much to be done — or, rather, undone to the Georgian property.