This design makes the most of the old agricultural yard surrounding beautifully converted residential barns, set in the idyllic east Suffolk countryside.
Hard and soft materials are carefully chosen to sensitively integrate the garden with the character of the barns and the local landscape setting.
Care is taken to ensure the garden design feels harmonious with this beautiful place, while delivering the practicality and outdoor living spaces our clients need.
Spaces are carefully shaped with clipped beech hedges and multi-stem trees, providing distinct but visually unified spaces around the garden.
On arrival, a minimalist arrangement of ornamental grass planting, clipped beech hedges, and a feature tree (a multi-stem acer campestre) creates a striking composition that simultaneously provides an inviting welcome and privacy for the rest of the garden.
Curved pathways lead through this arrival space into areas of naturalistic perennial planting and wildflower meadow beyond.
Sweeping, curving pathways lead through the garden, connecting various destination points and seating areas.
Naturalistic planting design flows throughout the garden, set a restrained hardscape of limestone pavers and gravel. This palette sits harmoniously with the beautiful agricultural, rural materiality of the barns, old garden walls and Suffolk landscape setting.
Perennial planting areas wrap around main seating areas, while expanses of wildflower meadow feature an inviting firepit seating spot in the sun.
Main seating areas of limestone pavers are set within planting areas, framed and sheltered by multi-stem trees and hedging.
The position of destination points and the flowing, curvilinear pathways creates a sense of discovery and reveal as you move through the garden.
The layered planting design offers interest all year round, from flowering displays of spring bulbs, through the lushness of summer growth, to changing autumnal hues and winter structure.
This old agricultural yard benefits from characterful old walls. In the most secluded part of garden an intimate walled gravel garden is created.
The language of loose naturalistic planting, multi-stem feature crabapple trees, structural beech hedging, and hardscape materiality continue here.
The planting palette itself subtly varies from elsewhere in the garden, to give this gravel garden its own character while still feeling unified and coherent with the wider scheme.
Throughout the garden, views are framed and composed, including from inside the house to the garden, with thought given to the daily experience of living in and moving through the design.
Materials are kept simple but considered, including the re-use of old agricultural features, such as the conversion of the old sheep dip trough into a water feature.
The garden design celebrates the character of the agricultural architecture and bucolic Suffolk countryside, and the client's day-to-day experience of living in this place.
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