By Suffolk based garden designer Sue Townsend. A clever design creates two gardens within one courtyard.
A reclaimed brick circle enclosed with soft planting and art deco inspired gazelle screens creates a secluded seating area for guests, whilst still allowing open views through beautiful plating to the main circular lawn.
For the owners, a slate terrace stretches the length of the house with a dining area at one end and two vegetable beds in easy access of the kitchen at the other end.
A quirky head sculpture (by Paul Richardson) provides a focal point from key windows in both properties. Garden lighting transforms the garden at night into a dramatic setting.
Located in coastal Suffolk, where the rainfall is very low, the soil sandy and with two enormous lime trees drinking all available moisture up from the soil, the plants selected had to be tough and drought tolerant.
Above we see a beautiful combination of Iris, Allium, Santolina, and Aqueligia.
Click any plant name below to read more about the plant and to add it to your own 'plants I want' list.
Allium
hollandicum Purple Sensation
Aquelegia vulgaris
'alba'
Aqueligia vulgaris
Astelia chathamica
'Silver Spear'
Cynara cardunculs
Digitalis purpurea
f. albiflora
Euphorbia
characias ssp wulfenii
Euphorbia
Humpty Dumpty
Euphorbia
myrsinites
Euphorbia
amygdaloides var robbiae
Foeniculum vulgare
`Purpureum'
Gaura lindheimeri
Heuchera Plum
Pudding
Hosta Halcyon
Iris germanica Titans
Glory
Iris germanica Blue Suede Shoes
Iris germanica Canon Ball
Melianthus major
Perovskia atriplicifolia Blue
Spire
Phlomis russeliana
Papaver orientale
Patty's Plum
Sedum Purple
Emperor
Sedum spectabile
Herbstfreude
Verbena bonariensis
Shrubs
Amelanchier
Ballerina
Chamaerops humilis
Choisya Aztex Pearl
Lavandula
angustifolia 'Hidcote'
Nandina domestica
Rosmarinus
Capri
Rosmarinus
officinalis Miss Jessops Upright
Santolina
chamaecyparissus Edward Bowles
Sarcococca confusa
Grasses
Anemanthele lessoniana
Stipa tenuissima
Stipa gigantea
Ampelodesmos
mauritanus
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