Opposite and parallel is a border planted with shrubs, which remains interesting during the entire summer. Conspicious are the Shrubby Horse-Chestnut (Aesculus parviflora), which flowers in the middle of summer, and two specimens of a peculiar tree that bears horrid spines on its trunk and has large, acorn-like leaves: Kalopanax septemlobus. Towards the end of this border is a concrete sculpture of a baby giant, made by Jan Dirk Neuteboom, that obviously devoured too many of the overhanging crab-apples.

Here you get to the Flower Meadow (10, 1988). Thanks to a mowing regime which has been carried on rigidly year after year, more and more flowers appear in this hay-meadow. Most species have established themselves spontaneously, like the omnipresent sorrel and the rosebay willow-herb, a number of species have been sown or planted out and are consolidating: Melancholy Thistle (Cirsium heterophyllum),  Caucasian Comfrey (Symphytum caucasicum), Meadow Cranesbill (Geranium pratense) and the Rampion Bellflower

(Campanula rapunculus). In 2001, after several fruitless attempts to sow it, some hundred specimens of the Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus angustifolius) appeared. In March the meadow is crowded with wild Narcisses (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), which used to grow wild a long time ago in the neighbouring Reest-valley (Schuinesloot, or "Schuinsche Sloot", was the name of the source of the river Reest before the removal of peat in the 19th century). They disseminate freely! Through an opening in the yew hedge and under an arch overgrown with the rambling rose "Frances E. Lester' you reach Kaatje's Garden (11, 1989-90, altered in 2000).

Yellow Rattle in the Flower Meadow

A green garden, dedicated to Elisabeth ("Kaatje) de Lestrieux, with whom Anton cooperated in 1989 in the making of a book about green flowers. Though formal by layout, the garden is rather a satire on the formal garden, with its absurd yew-box topiary in the centre and the bizarre gazebo (1994) by Jan Dirk Neuteboom at the back. Simultaneously, it is a plantsman's garden where lots of rare plants and grasses thrive. The rarer plants prefer to disseminate in the gravel, which has replaced the lawn in 2000.

Kaatje's Garden

The sods have been used to construct a semi-circular grass-bench, which you pass by on your way to garden 12. Dozens of specimens of the male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) have established themselves spontaneously in the grass-bench.