Manor Cottage, Buckinghamshire

17th century cottage, on the edge of the Chiltern Hills AONB. An enclosed garden full of evergreen mature shrubs the idea was to open the garden up and add explorative routes through the garden under the beech trees in to varying spaces of light and shade. Yew parterre added a classic garden nod to the charismatic cottage and filled with a purple and white collection of perennials for an early summer bounce.

The eye is then drawn down the garden to the taking in the towering beech trees underplanted with beech and yew topiary and the understory let loose to grow with wild abandon. The smallest of intervention was made in making the meadow and yet huge array of wild flowers have come from the once regular cut lawn. Now just the mowers path is the guide though the garden.

A garden that has been unleashed and can now develop over the future seasons.