The garden did not have a perimeter wall, but was only separated from the wilderness by a dry ditch, called a ha-ha. Kent was praised and described as the one who "first leaped the fence and saw that all nature is a garden."
園林拆去圍牆，僅以乾溝隔離原野；當時的散文家對肯特的造境讚嘆不已，形容他「越過圍牆，發現了整個自然就是一個大花園」。