Surrey

The large garden of this 1930s Arts and Crafts-style home had been divided in half by a mature yew hedge. With a view to retaining the two separate areas, as well as the existing summer house, apple tree and some key large shrubs, the idea was to create two contrasting spaces. The first area would pick up on the formal framework of the Taxus baccata and Buxus topiary and combine them with deep herbaceous borders and gravel paths. Then, on entering through an arched opening in the hedge, the tone changes and you arrive in a meadow.

Working with the existing uncultivated lawn, the meadow was established combining snake’s head fritillary, flowering in spring, oxeye daisies, in bloom in early summer, and lesser knapweed continuing into late summer. The meadow sits within the framework of full standard Carpinus betula trees.

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Aggregates; Carpinus betula; Herbaceous border; Meadow; Taxus baccata; Water feature