Client: Private | Completed 2022

Masterplan and gentle interventions for a five acre country garden including a chemical free ‘living’ pool. The pool is surrounded by simple wildflower meadow punctuated with Yew topiary and incorporates a ‘bund’ landform sculpted from the pool dig out which cocoons the pool area and enhances privacy close to the neighbour’s boundary.

Extended herbaceous planting in two ‘hot spots’ bordering the existing terraces maximises their impact. A stepped lawn cuts through an existing retaining wall near the south facing terrace and opens up a framed view to the fields beyond. Removing an old boundary fence relinks the house to its landscape. An informal allée of Malus ‘Evereste’ (Crabapple) trees – the odd one missing here & there, as if they had always been there and one or other had been lost over time has been added amongst longer grass interplanted with naturalising bulbs. A central mown pathway leads the eye out to the beautiful views.

At the front of the house, the sense of arrival is quietly enhanced by cloud pruning existing hedging and adding further topiary and shade tolerant planting to frame the front door. A newly extended driveway moves parking away from the front of the house

Photographs by Lisa Linder