Cornish Farm Garden
Brief:
Design of planting beds with mature feature plants and interest all year.
Design:
In this design, I chose ornamental grasses in combination with palms and deciduous shrubs to create an earthy, natural looking garden. Pastel perennials give it a soft and magical edge in spring and summer, followed by a great display of colours of witch hazel and fothergilla in autumn before the leaves fall. Then again in the depths of winter, the secret but richly perfumed blooms of witch hazel and viburnum burst into life .
Meadows come alive at various stages throughout the year, as much for their insect life as the changing plants that bring colour throughout the seasons. Perennials and ornamental grasses blended the garden to its surroundings. Such plants house insects that create an evolutionary soundscape all year round. Yew hedges were added, creating a juxtaposition between formal and informal and defining the garden from its meadow.
