The Family Friendly Garden at Capel Manor

The Upwardly Mobile Garden showed how a young couple in their first home could add value to their property and develop their enthusiasm for plants and gardening in a small 5 x 5 m plot.

The Family Friendly Garden is an evolution of the young couple's first garden as they move onto the next stage of their lives. It demonstrates how gardening knowledge evolves and the lessons learnt are transferable to another garden.

The contemporary design uses a calm colour palette with hot spots of colour and includes plenty of space for play, relaxing and entertaining.

Plants list   

Acanthus mollis
Allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation' AGM
Actaea simplex ‘Pink Spike’
Actaea cimicifuga   
Agapanthus Bluestorm (‘Atibu’)
Agapanthus praecox Silver Moon (Notfred’)
Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’ AGM
Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ AGM
Brunnera  macrophylla ‘Variegata’
Buddleja davidii Peacock (‘Peakeep’)
Buxus sempervirens AGM
Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’
Carpinus betulus AGM
Cercis Canadensis Lavender Twist (‘Covey’)
Clematis ‘Vyvyan Pennell’
Coprosma repens Pacific Night (‘Hutpac’)
Cornus Venus (Kn30 8’)
Corylus avellana ‘Red Majestic’
Crataegus x lavalleei
Dicentra spectablis ‘Goldheart’
Diervilla sessilifolia Cool Splash (‘LPDCPODASA’)
Digitalis parviflora ‘Milk Chocolate’
Dryopteris affinis ‘Crispa Gracilis Congesta’
Eryngium x zabelii ‘Jos Eijking’
Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’ AGM
Euphorbia Redwing (‘Charam’) AGM
Euphorbia characias White Swan (Wilcott’)
Geranium ‘Johnson’s Blue’ AGM
Heuchera ‘Gypsy Dancer’
Heuchera ‘Sparkling Burgundy’
Hibiscus syriacus Blue Chiffon (‘Notwood3’)
Hosta ‘June’
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Bombshell’
Hydrangea macrophylla Endless Summer® Blue (‘Bailmer’)   
Hydrangea macrophylla Endless Summer® Pink (‘Bailmer’)
Hydrangea macrophylla Endless Summer® ‘Twist and Shout’™
Knautia macedonica ‘Mars Midget’
Lavandula  angustifolia ‘Hidcote’ AGM
Lavandula x chaytoriae
Magnolia Black Tulip™ (‘JURmag1’)
Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gold Bar’
Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’
Nepeta x faassenii AGM
Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ AGM
Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Blue Spire’ AGM
Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spire’   
Polystichum setiferum Acutilobum Group
Prunus lusitanica ‘Variegata’
Prunus incisa ‘Mikinori’
Prunus incisa ’Kojo-no-Mai’
Rhodanthemum ‘African Eyes’
Rhododendron ‘Dreamland’ AGM
Rhododendron ‘Pink Pearl’
Rhus typhina Tiger Eyes (Bailtiger’)
Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Lace Lady’
Rosa Jasmina (Korcentex’)
Rosa Rhapsody in Blue (‘Frantasia’)
Sedum ‘Abbey Dore’
Sedum Matrona AGM
Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla ‘Eva’
Stipa gigantea AGM
Trachelospermum jasminoides
Verbena bonariensis AGM
Veronica spicata Royal Candles (‘Glory’)
Wisteria floribunda ‘Multijuga’ AGM