The Brewin Dolphin Garden

Designed by Matthew Childs. This is a garden about possibilities and nurturing potential for the future. The calm, tranquil spaces in this year's garden surrounded by fresh, lush, planting reflect Brewin Dolphin's long heritage of nurturing and preserving wealth.

However, there are also bold, engaging elements throughout the garden such as patinated copper archways, generous paths and sculpture which symbolise emerging opportunities and Brewin Dolphin's forward thinking and relevant approach. Finally investing in relationships is a key part of the garden with an open sociable entertaining space.

A fresh colour palette of greens, yellows, whites and creams help create a tranquil mood in the garden with a lush yet delicate mix of perennials, ferns, hostas and grasses. They weave beneath the dappled canopies of multi stemmed Betula nigra and Acers and are punctuated with the dense, loosely globe like forms of Cryptomeria japonica 'Globosa Nana'.

As with the hard landscaping there are contrasts in mood within the planting with accents of claret and purple which symbolise preserved wealth from a nurtured approach.  Although not designed to be specifically from one geographic area, there are strong Asiatic influences within the planting scheme.

Plant list:

Trees
Acer griseum (Multi stem)
Betula nigra (Multi stem)
Liquidambar styraciflua 'Worplesdon' (Pleached)

Hedges
Carpinus betulus

Shrubs
Cryptomeria japonica 'Globosa Nana'
Nandina domestica
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Dart's Gold'
Physocarpus opulifolius 'Diabolo'
Spiraea thunbergii
Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mariesii'
Viburnum sargentii 'Onondaga'

Perennials
Alchemilla erythropoda
Alchemilla mollis
Anemone nemorosa
Angelica archangelica
Angelica gigas
Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Black Barlow'
Aquilegia caerulea ‘Krystal’
Aquilegia viridiflora var. atropurpurea syn Chocolate Soldier
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Green Apples’
Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Ruby Port'
Asarum europaeum
Astrantia major 'Claret'
Astrantia major 'Large White'
Cenolophium denudatum
Cornus canadensis
Dicentra 'Aurora'
Digitalis grandiflora
Digitalis lutea
Digitalis purpurea 'Sutton's Giant Primrose'
Disporum cantoniense ‘Green Giant’
Disporum flavens
Disporopsis pernyi
Epimedium x rubrum
Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea'
Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae
Geranium phaeum
Geranium phaeum 'Raven'
Heuchera cylindrica 'Greenfinch'
Iris sibirica 'Dreaming Yellow'
Iris sibirica 'Shirley Pope'
Lysimachia Beaujolais
Paris polyphylla
Polygonatum x hybridum
Primula elatior subsp. Pallasii
Rodgersia podophylla
Smyrnium perfoliatum
Tellima grandiflora
Trillium erectum
Trillium cuneatum
Viola ‘Raven’
Viola cornuta
Viola cornuta 'Cleopatra'
Viola cornuta Alba Group
Viola 'Martin'
Zingiber mioga
Zizia aptera

Grasses
Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
Melica altissima ‘Alba’
Milium effusum 'Aureum'
Ophiopogon japonicus

Ferns
Asplenium trichomanes
Adiantum venustum
Asplenium scolopendrium
Dryopteris atrata
Dryopteris erythrosora
Matteuccia struthiopteris
Polystichum tsussimense

Hosta
Hosta 'Devon Green'
Hosta 'Hadspen Blue'
Hosta 'Halcyon'
Hosta 'Royal Standard'
Hosta ‘Sum and Substance’

Bulbs
Nectaroscordum siculum