Silver medal garden by Stuart Perry. This garden aims to show how a good garden design can create a garden that becomes a key room in the modern home.
Stuart Perry, the garden
designer, set out to design a fresh, inviting garden that contained
the essence of the Scandinavian countryside. The garden aims to
create a feeling of being immersed in a relaxing environment whilst
still retaining the functionality of a modern garden.
Planting is a green canvas of grasses with splashes of colour from other
plants including Iris,
Hemerocallis, Knautia, roses, Thalictrum and Aquilegia. Planting is soft, simple and easy to care
for.
A unique feature in this garden is the 'Sove' summerhouse,
which forms the rest zone of the garden. A handcrafted bench from
New Zealand sits at the far end of the garden near a glass
waterfall. Stuart believes that the glass wall of this waterfall is
the largest single piece of glass ever used in the UK and possibly
Europe.
Plant list: (click on any of the green links below to read more about the plant and to add to your own 'Plants I want' list)
Aconitum 'Newry Blue'
Amsonia tabernaemontana var.
salicifolia
Anthriscus sylvestris
'Ravenswing'
Aquilegia alpina
Aquilegia vulgaris
'Alba'
Aquilegia 'William
Guinness'
Arisaema concinnum
Artemisia lactiflora
'Guizhou'
Aruncus dioicus
'Zweiweltenkind'
Astrantia major
Astrantia major 'Claret'; 'Ruby Wedding'
Baptisia australis
Brizia media
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl
Forster'
Camassia leichtlinii
Camassia leichtlinii subsp.
suksdorfii Caerulea
Group
Camassia quamash
Carex elata
Carpinus betulus
Cirsium
rivulare 'Atropurpureum'
Deschampia
cespitosa
Dierama pulcherrimum
'Blackbird'
Digitalis ferruginea
Hemerocallis 'Coming Up
Roses'; 'Kelly's Girl'; 'Little Princess'; 'Little Wart'; 'McMillan
Memorial'; 'Metaphor Mauve'; 'Milly Schlumpf'; 'Olive Bailey
Langdon'; 'Picardy Pride'; 'Waiting in the Wings'
Hystrix patula
Iris chrysographes 'Black
Knight'
Iris siberica 'Cool Spring';
'Hour Edge'; 'Leo Hewitt'; 'Prussian Blue'; 'Soft Blue'; 'Summer
Sky'
Iris x robusta 'Gerald
Darby'
Knautia macedonica
Ligularia
dentata
Linaria purpurea 'Canon
Went'
Lunaria annua var.
albiflora
Lunaria redivia
Luzula alpinopilosa
Luzula nivea
Luzula sylvatica
Melica transylvanica
'Atropurpurea'
Miscanthus
gracillimus
Molinia
caerulea 'Windspiel'
Nectaroscordum
siculum
Podophyllum hexandrum
'Majus'
Polygonatum x biflorum
Rosa 'Awakening'; 'Bobbie James'; 'Francois Juranville';
'Lavinia'; 'Mme
Gregoire Staechelin'; 'New
Dawn'; 'Rambling
Rector'; 'White Cloud'
Salvia
pratensis 'Lapis Lazuli'
Salvia x sylvestris 'Mainacht'
Sanguisorba menziesii
Sanguisorba officinalis
'Tanna'
Stipa gigantea
Thalictrum
aquilegifolium 'Album'; 'Atropurpureum';
'Thundercloud'
Tragopogon porrifolius
Veratrum album
Verbascum blattaria f.
albiflorum
Veronicastrum virginicum
'Lavendelturm'; 'Temptation'