Reiss died in 1961 and the National Trust continue to look after the property. The house's later tenants included the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse and her husband Prof John Malins from 1980 to 1993. Reiss's carefree planting was said to have had a strong influence of Hobhouse as well as Dame Sylvia Crowe and the American born designer Lanning Roper.
