PORTFOLIO > TIMELESS ELEGANCE
This 3 acre garden on chalk soil has views out to wetland meadows, but had no other definitive character or structure apart from some well established tree specimens.
The Clients had recently completed the refurbishment of the Georgian house and wished to follow this through by redesigning the garden.
The brief was to extend the character of the house into the garden, to provide simple, elegant space for fairly large-scale entertaining and to make the most of the borrowed landscape beyond the boundaries, effectively bringing the countryside into the garden. Also of importance was to bring emphasis to the principle entrance to the house, this having been lost through extensions to the original building over time.
In relation to this, the house sits close to two of its boundaries and so also to be taken into consideration was the need to separate the entrance from the recreational areas; the problem being that the ‘front’ and ‘back’ gardens were one and the same.
The structure of the garden is defined using good quality stone walling and paving in a simple layout to provide a large outdoor space for entertaining with the wider garden area planted informally, linking and emphasising the views to the neighbouring wetland meadow. The planting is in traditional English country garden style with roses, shrubs and herbaceous plant material in a predominantly blue, silver and pink colour scheme.
The garden was planted in April 2008 and these images were taken in September 2008.