01460 391503
Simon Land Gardens
Maintain Develop Inspire
078 861 17072
Country Cottage, near Yeovil
Basic Brief: Border creation, ongoing development of garden areas, including beds and borders, topiary, climbers. No lawn maintenance
Mr H & Ms R contacted Simon Land Gardens in April 2015 to help with designing and planting a new planting scheme at the front of their house. The general area was very tired and uninspiring, and the clients expressed a strong desire to have a beautiful border to frame the house which should be a 'riot of colour'.
We moved forward with a hedge of Lavender 'Hidcote' bordering the pathway, and then behind a beautiful mix of herbaceous planting providing an abundance of colour from early summer to autumn. The new border was framed with a hedge of Yew, useful for its evergreen foliage and versatility. The opposite side of the path was completed the following year to the same theme, once a patch of ground elder had been eradicated.
Further works in this garden have included transforming a shady, uninspiring corner of the garden into a beautiful deep border, planted with shade loving plants of a variety of forms and textures. Two small specimen trees were planted included a Japanese Acer and a Magnolia 'Susan'. These were under planted with ferns, hellebores, astilbes, and primulas, as well as shrubby planting such as Cornus 'Midwinter Fire, Sarcococca confusa to name but a few.
