Victorian North Facing Garden

The clients were doing some major renovations to their home, including a new kitchen extension, and wanted to upgrade the garden to suit the changes and also to make much more of the outside space.

The landscaping was carried out at the same time as the house renovations. This garden was like many other London gardens, long, thin, behind a terraced Victorian property, and somewhat overlooked by houses to the back.

The new garden was created with a lawn, pretty borders filled with flowering shrubs and perennials to provide year-round colour and give a natural cottage look, and a herb bed near the kitchen door.

My clients love gardening, and have the time to look after this fairly high maintenance garden.

Plant list

Trees

Magnolia stellata 'Royal Star'	Magnolia grandiflora	Malus 'Gorgeous'
Prunus 'Spire'

Shrubs

Abelia x grandiflora	Amelanchier lamarckii	Buxus sempervirens
Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'	Choisya x dewitteana 'Aztec Pearl'	Camellia x williamsii 'Debbie'
Philadelphus 'Manteau d'Hermine'	Camellia japonica 'Margaret Davis'	Rosa 'Kew Gardens'
Chaenomeles japonica

Climbers

Trachelospermum jasminoides	Rosa 'Gertrude Jekyll'	Rosa 'The Generous Gardener'
Rosa 'Claire Austin'	Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad'	Clematis viticella

Perennials

Helleborus niger	Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'	Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote'
Convallaria majalis	Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'	Phlox paniculata 'White Admiral'
Polystichum tsussimense	Geranium 'Ann Folkard'	Digitalis purpurea 'Pam's Choice'
Geranium 'Nimbus'	Omphalodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram'	Phlox paniculata 'Cosmopolitan'
Agapanthus 'Bluestorm'	Chrysanthemum 'Emperor of China'

Bulbs

Allium hollandicum 'Purple Sensation'	Muscari armeniacum	Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Narcissus 'Thalia'	Crocus tommasinianus 'Whitewell Purple'	Narcissus 'Ziva'
Tulipa (any spring-blooming hybrid variety)	Tulipa (any Darwin hybrid)