By Hampshire garden designer Janet Bligh. A simple bold design with moving water and soft planting creates an intimate garden space within a large estate in Haslemere, Surrey.
A new extension of oak & glass was being added to a large Arts & Crafts house in a country estate in Surrey.
The brief was to design the area immediately outside the extension to include running water but without blocking the stunning views from the terrace.
The house has been renovated in a minimalist style and the garden was to reflect the clients’ tastes but also compliment the traditional Yorkstone terrace running the length of the house.
Centred on the new study, a low raised pool was built with water falling via a copper chute into a rill which leads to a large reflective pool. Box balls help to frame the view to the raised pool when seen from the house.
The area is wrapped around with a clipped yew hedge to create an intimate space for the family to enjoy.
Cubes of clipped Buxus sempervirens and the hedge contrast with with soft planting which includes grasses such as Miscanthus, Stipa Gigantea and Pennisetum. Flower and foliage colour is restricted to green, white and reds.
Hedging
Buxus sempervirens
Taxus baccata
Shrubs
Berberis thunbergii Nana
Berberis ottawensis auricoma
Choisya ternata
Cistus Alan Fradd
Cornus alba Elegantissima
Cotinus Velvet Cloak
Cotoneaster Coral Beauty
Hebe sutherlandii
Hebe albicans
Hebe angustifolia
Melianthus Major
Philadelphus Manteau d’Hermine
Photinia x fraseri Red Robin
Prunus cistena
Pittosporum tenuifolium
Pittosporum tobira
Pittosporum tobira Nanum
Potentilla Abbotswood
Viburnum carlesii
Viburnum tinus
Climbers
Clematis armandii
Garry Elliptica James Roof
Pyracantha Saphyr Red
Viburnum burkwoodii
Herbaceous
Anemone Honorine Jobert
Artemisia Powis Castle
Bergenia white
Cirsium rivulare atropurpureum
Cynara cardunculus
Erigeron karvinskianus
Euphorbia martinii
Geranium sanguineum album
Heucherella ‘Kimono’
Heuchera Palace Purple
Iberis sempervirens
Knautia Macedonica
Libertia grandiflora
Lysimachia Ephemerum
Pulmonaria Sissinghurst White
Scabiosa Chile Black
Viola cornuta alba
Grasses
Festuca glauca
Miscanthus sinensis ‘China’
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Malepartus’
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Silberfeder’
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Yakushima Dwarf’
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Stipa arundinacea
Stipa gigantea
Stipa tenuissima
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