Like all gardens, it has matured and evolved over the years. Trees have grown altering shade patterns and vistas and plants die and are replaced. Subsequent owners too have made changes. However many of the plants Mrs. Fish chose are still grown today and the layout is still largely how she left it. The current owners (since May 2025) have renovated the Green Garden and reinstated a sunny perennial border. The garden was listed as Grade 1 in 1992, meaning it is of international importance.

Mrs. Fish not only created an inspirational garden, she wrote about it in her first book We Made a Garden (1956) and in numerous magazine articles and in so doing changed the way people gardened. Many cottage style gardens pre-war were labour intensive and in the post-war period people wanted gardens they could look after themselves, without paid help. Advice was often to use ground covering plants such as geraniums and heathers with dwarf conifers and a few shrubs and perhaps a small cherry tree to add height. Mrs. Fish showed that an informal layout of beds and the use of less rigid plants that spread between paving, tumbled over walls and were allowed to grow more or less how and where they pleased, could also be low maintenance while providing colour and interest that changed with the seasons.