Worthers
25-08-2024 BRIGHTON
This project in the Five Ways area of Brighton was a simple redesign of a newly acquired house by the customer looking to make it their own and add some focality to the garden along to give it more purpose and flavour. We began with neatening up the two climbers along the walls. Both the Honeysuckle Lonicera and Clematis seemed untouched for a while and had become untamed so a harden chop and shape allowed for directional growth to be more controlled and give light to the borders below.
Then removing the existing Alkanet growing everywhere and replacing it by adding in a mixture of the Iris ‘Susan Bliss’, Stipa tenuissima, Achillea ‘Moonshine’, Agapanthus, Verbena bonariensis and the Verbena ‘Lollipop’, Salvia nemerosa, Miscanthus Morning Light'. Then by adding two staggered focal pieces in each side of the bed of the Edgeworthia chrysantha and a Cornus kousa it gave depth and height within the two beds and the garden as a whole.
We also planted two Betula utilis ‘Moonbeam’s into the decking for their paper white bark and delicate deciduous growth which which provide dappled shade with their greater height and frame the bench at the back for a perfect reading spot.
