Devizes Country Garden
Wiltshire
Set in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside, this charming farmhouse required a new garden masterplan.
The formality of the courtyard parterre set the tone for the design, with the informal destination being a garden room set further away from the house. The transitional space in-between has been designed to blur these lines of formality, and enhance the journey between the spaces. This was achieved with Taxus, as both a new hedge to help zone the garden areas, but mainly as topiary domes within the lawn, which in time will be shaped to be of various heights and widths, and full of character!
One Taxus dome ‘rolls’ away into a new meadow and orchard area. This meadow will continue to be developed slowly over the coming years, as the fertile green-sand soil proves too rich for many plants that would typically compete with the grass. Buttercup, Vetch, Sorrel and Yarrow do well, but the ornamental Geranium pratense 'Mrs Kendall Clark' has taken perhaps best of all, with many more plants to joyfully experiment with as the meadow develops and matures.
A new orchard has been planted to provide the family with Apples, Pears, Plums, Damsons and Quince in the years to come. The trees will help to soften and disguise the garden room in the winter months when the meadow is cut, as well as framing views out of the hut to the wider landscape beyond.
Built by: Gwynn Projects
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