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Luxury Living Garden
By Sussex based garden designer Anna Helps. This garden included a stunning and expansive porcelain patio area with knapped flint walls, an outdoor kitchen and an elevated dining platform allowing this client to entertain outside all year round.
The planting within the beds around the raised platform works to add privacy to this dining area, whilst attracting bees and pollinators. Salvia, Alliums and Gladioli work with Pittosporum tennuifolium and Cercis canadensis, whilst grasses add movement and extend the period of interest through the year.
Areas of lawn, soft planting, hedging and pleached trees allowing the area to merge with its wider setting and the back drop of the South Downs.
Planting that enjoys full sun and some exposure to wind have been selected for the large new patio area. This includes Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, Alchemilla mollis, Carex and Arbutus unedo. Half standard Euonymus japonicus Bravo add vertical interest and sign post the change in level.
Yew hedging acts as backdrop to Hydrangea panciulata, Miscanthus Morning Light and Carex Evergold, creating an enclosed ‘pebble patio’ area.
Geums and Alchemilla mollis combine to give a frothy and soft planting effect.
Geranium Rozanne taking centre stage as underplanting to pleached Carpinus betulis.
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Designed by Anna Helps
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