Walled cottage garden in Tisbury, Wiltshire

 

The brief from my client was to create a modern cottage style garden to compliment the new house and hard landscaping which were built in a traditional style using local stone.

 

The garden is completely enclosed with a wooden fence and a large expanse of red brick wall so a combination of cream and orange roses, evergreen clematis armandii for spring interest and evergreen honeysuckle under-planted with cream and orange tulips were planted to begin creating walls of colour.

Walled border just after planting
Walled border two years after planting
Planters and top terrace just after planting

 

 

 

 

 

The rest of the planting was enclosed in two large raised beds so I used white Hebe rakaiensis and pale mauve Lavandula intermedia x ‘Grosso’  for structure complimented by orange Helenium ‘Moerheim Beauty’, dark purple Salvia Nemorosa ‘Caradonna’ , Verbena bonariensis ‘Lollipop’ and the lovely Crocosmia mistral with its double orange flower.  The planters were edged with a combination of Erigeron karvinskianos and purple Aubretia variegata.

 

Planters two years after planting

Planters one year after planting