Large country garden on the edge of a village
Brief:
An established garden that needed brightening up for a specific purpose: the owners were getting married and holding their wedding reception at home in early June. The brief was multi-pronged. Access to the marquee was planned to run alongside the vegetable patch, which needed to look tidy and productive early in the season. Further interest was to be added to the main beds to coincide with the wedding but, importantly, the new had to earn their keep adding greater appeal year round and providing an attractive view from the kitchen table.
Solution:
The main area of the garden where the wedding was to be held: the bed was widened considerably and new planting added. Structure and architectural forms were put in to create better year-round appeal and enhance existing planting.
Vegetable Garden: create order and a sense of design to make the area more appealing. Make each part of the vegetable patch attractive by using structure, leaf shape and colour and applying the rules of garden design as you would in other parts of a garden.