Farmhouse Front Garden
Site
Hardwick, Cambridge
date
May, 2011
services provided
Full Garden Design & Planting
Our brief was to enhance the approach to this historic house with improved access and interesting planting. The awkward angles of this garden fronting an Elizabethan farmhouse were remedied with the addition of a wide Yorkstone path, broken up with compacted gravel. Lighting provides safe access at night. The planting runs parallel to the house, also helping to ameliorate the acute angles, and consists of evergreen yew and box hedging broken up with strips of colourful perennials, including salvias, aquilegias, geraniums and plenty of alliums during Spring. An ancient well was covered with a toughened glass cover and lit from within (and a pump added for watering the garden).