Country Garden in Surrey

By Hampshire based garden designer Jennifer Gayler. A beautiful blend of traditional and contemporary, including such features as a walled garden with potager, a croquet lawn with topiary, a wild flower meadow, a modern water garden, woodland area and a driveway lined with rhododendrons and woodland groundcover. A garden to explore!

Country garden in surrey

In the image above stone terraces are planted with shrubs, perennials and bulbs for all season interest - Box ball, Choisya ternata and Euphorbia wulfenii all feature.

Country garden in surrey

A long grass path edged with a dynamic planting of different shapes and textures - Phormium tenax variegata, Berberis thunbergii atropurpureum, Pyrus salcifolia pendula

Country garden in surrey

Architectural Yucca cordifolia frame an iron pergola clad in Vitis cognetiae leading to a gate into the woodland.

Country garden in surrey

Here an oak pergola is overflowing with Wisteria sinensis and Clematis x jackmanii to give a tantalising glimpse of the wild flower meadow and orchard beyond.

Country garden in surrey

This handcrafted iron gate is draped in Rosa 'New Dawn' and Vitis cognetiae leading into the terraced walled garden.

Country garden in surrey

Steps edged with Alchemilla mollis and Allium giganteum lead to a manicured lawn edged with the evergreen Quercus ilex which will be shaped into globes as they mature.