English Country Garden, Riseley

 

 

Address: Swineshead Lane, Riseley, Bedfordshire

 

 

Client: Mrs. Miranda H

 

 

Status: Completed 2017

 

 

Project Description: Barn Conversion Phase One

 

 

An existing red brick built cow shed that had been used for general storage was to be converted into a new home using as much of the original building as possible. The building was carefully renovated and converted, however, the client required a garden design that provided a private garden that was screened from the remainder of the farm. The challenge was to create a garden in a space that had been a farmyard for several centuries, requiring extensive groundworks, subsoiling and soil amelioration to create borders in which trees, hedging, roses and herbaceous plants could thrive.

 

It was requested that the garden should be designed and built in a robust traditional and low maintenance 'English Country Garden Style' and was to be in keeping with the gardens, houses and countryside of the nearby area, a lawn was required along with clipped box hedging. A faux lead water feature was positioned opposite the living room doors whilst a Pergola and Lutyens Bench was placed opposite the kitchen doors.

 

No grasses were to be incorporated in the planting scheme but small trees, roses, Yew hedges, Lavender hedges, clipped Bay trees, Box hedging and Ferns were permitted.