Originally a pig farm for nearly 30 years and then a farmyard garden, this half acre plot surrounded by AONB countryside had been derelict for nearly 8 years. The existing tiny Victorian cottage was to be replaced with a modern timber - clad, low energy family home. The outline garden design was required to support the planning application for the proposed new building.

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Local materials and a relationship with the surrounding rural landscape were a priority in the scheme. To break down and soften the tall linear volumes of the new building, an orchard within a meadow will be planted across the complete width of the plot. Other than the tiny road the village green and the front garden will hopefully seamlessly blend together, as in fact it once did a hundred years ago before the lane was built.

 

The rear garden will 'borrow' the extended landscaping of the gently elevated uncultivated field behind the plot and will be planted with the same numerous types of wild flowers which have happily seeded and colonised this precious, untouched piece of land for 20 years without any human intervention.

 

Garden rooms closer to the house will include a hot dry gravel garden, a formal lawn surrounded by a pleached lime avenue, a boule court and an ornamental kitchen garden bordered by open drystone low level walling made of locally quarried forest marble . Pleached and espaliered fruit trees will clothe the proposed new barn and provide high level shelter for the kitchen garden.Multi stemmed trees, evergreen grasses and self seeding annuals with contrast with classical yew hedging.