Chiswick Secret Garden

A light deprived lawn was replaced with reclaimed flag paving, and trees were pruned. The planting scheme in this shady garden is split into two distinct areas, cottage planting nearest the house and a green jungle in the second half, to compliment the existing mature trees and shrubs.

Evergreen structure is provided in the cottage planting area by large Box Balls and Pittosporum Tom Thumb. These shrubs are surrounded by a mix of geranium, grasses suitable for shade, epimedium, nicotiana, anemone, and thalictrum planted in blocks, which will provide all year round colour in pink’s, white and blue.

Red autumn colour is provided by the Euonymus ailanthus, and some of the geraniums. Tree ferns (dicksonia), Fatsia, Pseudopanax and Gunnera provide the jungle feel in the 2nd half of the garden, underplanted with more ferns, hosta, lilies and hellebores.

A mass of flowering bulbs will be planted throughout the cottage area to provide accent colour throughout the year.

Plant list

Helleborus niger	Alchemilla mollis	Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'
Asplenium scolopendrium	Buxus sempervirens	Gunnera manicata
Fatsia japonica	Dryopteris filix-mas	Dicksonia antarctica
Clematis armandii	Osmunda regalis	Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Tom Thumb'
Pittosporum tobira	Malus tschonoskii	Thalictrum delavayi
Zantedeschia aethiopica	Tellima grandiflora	Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'
Epimedium x rubrum	Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'	Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Purpureus'
Clematis 'Nelly Moser'	Clematis montana 'Freda'	Polystichum setiferum 'Plumosum Densum'
Geranium 'Nimbus'	Geranium macrorrhizum 'Bevan's Variety'	Rosa 'The Prince's Trust'
Nicotiana mutabilis	Asplenium scolopendrium 'Furcatum'	Hosta (any variety)
Luzula sylvatica 'Aurea'