We have been working with our clients for several years, making sensitive interventions and improvements to their Italianate Garden; laid out in the early twentieth century by their predecessors.  Initially, we were asked to review the whole garden.

Ideas have been inspired by the garden’s layout and historical context.  We have discussed improvements, such as introducing avenues into the parkland beyond and installing a miroir d’eau and pleached circle in the old tennis court.  

To begin with, we cleared the shrub borders surrounding the main lawn, introduction silvery and variegated flowering shrubs along with roses, hydrangeas and Miscanthus sinensis against the backdrop of the imposing Yew hedge.  The following year, we replanted the Rose Garden with using old, fragrant varieties blended with repeat-flowering David Austin English Roses.  We added soft structure, with eight Pyrus salicifolia ‘Pendula’ and quartets of minty-coloured Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Golf Ball’. 

Having installed a pleached hornbeam circle, we are in the process of constructing the miroir d’eau at its centre. We have also assisted our clients in the layout of a new allée of Yew and flowering trees.