Potager Garden near Beaconsfield
A brand new contemporary yet formal garden to be crafted in place of an unused tennis court.
The owners of this large detached property outside Beaconsfield fell in love with it initially because of the garden. Behind the house it flows down the hillside in multiple tiers, with a large dining terrace, a generous formal lawn with tiered fountain, a croquet lawn, and woodland at the bottom of the garden. Their family has grown up and they don’t really use the tennis court any more, which now languishes unloved on the middle terrace. They approached Chiltern Garden Design to envision a new use for this space, expressing their love for formality, topiary, cut flowers and a space to grow edibles.
Chiltern Garden Design has created a new vision for this space with a formal yet entirely modern version of a potager garden. Enclosed with tall yew hedging, sections of trellising act as ‘walls’, allowing the client to benefit from the south facing walls for growing soft fruit, and the trellising for scented jasmine and roses. Inspired by the quartered layouts of paradise gardens like those found at the Alhambra, the space is symmetrically laid out, with a central water feature, and a generously sized fruit cage, which forms a third ‘wall’ of the garden, the south side enclosed by a row of pleached trees and hedging.
The front driveway is also to be improved with new paving and planting, and various areas of the rest of the garden will be renovated as part of the works, including a new double wisteria pergola, new orchard, boundary fencing and deer fencing.
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