Residential Property

Suffolk

Private Gardens

Reorientation of part of a larger country garden following the addition of a new conservatory and large areas of glazing to the house, creating a stronger relationship between the interior, garden and wider landscape.

A series of terraces steps up through the garden, establishing strong axes from the house and allowing views to extend towards the highest part of the site. Significant earthworks and new retaining walls were used to reshape the levels, with generous planting softening the structure and drawing the garden back into its rural setting.

The design balances a strong architectural framework close to the house with increasingly planted spaces beyond, creating depth when viewed from inside as well as a sequence of places to move through and occupy.

Scope

Landscape design · Spatial planning · Hard landscape design · Planting design · Level changes + retaining structures · Material selection · Detailed design

Terraced country garden with central rectangular lawn, layered planting, clipped hedging and upper terrace beyond

Verbena in the foreground with lawn, seating, terraces and garden structures beyond

Upper terrace with pleached trees, clipped forms, seating and layered perennial planting

Pale stone bench with agapanthus planters on the raised terrace, steps and planting behind

Three tall dark planters of white agapanthus against a pale stone wall

Steps and stone terrace beside the house glazing and brick chimney

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