
Gloucestershire: Geometric Garden
It is a complex design with relatively formal and informal parts. Stepping out the main door from the house, it’s the highest terrace of the garden with a big water feature along the central line to rotate and collect the luck for the family according to Chinese Feng Shui. One step down on both sides, Two terraces with raised planting beds offer space for breakfast and rotaries. There are two stepping ways from each of the terrace, leading to the long grass meadow on the middle west side and the rockery garden on the east side. The layout next to the house is rectilinear with interesting levels and unsymmetric shapes, and the silver gravel planting would eventually quietly merge into the rockeries. With a ramp convenient for wheelbarrows, downside of the short walls and lonicera hedge, it is the party terrace. The banquet table and chairs for 12 is under the parasol pleached trees. Connecting the stepping path from the gravel garden, the mown lawn path flows in the middle of the meadow, with four sparse corten steel arch tunnel overhead. Also, a small woodland sits on the West of the meadow. The very south part of the garden is a natural bog garden. A millboard walk meander threading through the bog garden. An intimate gazebo hides there on one of the sunk bog bed.
All the plants chosen are beneficial for wildlife and there are loads of wildlife habitats in this garden. Most plants in this garden vibrant and bloom from summer to autumn, but the evergreen plants and the scatter through bulbs also provide interest throughout winter and spring.