The Halifax Garden - 'These Four Walls' - Silver

Silver medal garden by Stuart Perry. This garden aims to show how a good garden design can create a garden that becomes a key room in the modern home.

Stuart Perry, the garden designer, set out to design a fresh, inviting garden that contained the essence of the Scandinavian countryside. The garden aims to create a feeling of being immersed in a relaxing environment whilst still retaining the functionality of a modern garden.

Planting is a green canvas of grasses with splashes of colour from other plants including Iris, Hemerocallis, Knautia, roses, Thalictrum and Aquilegia. Planting is soft, simple and easy to care for.

A unique feature in this garden is the 'Sove' summerhouse, which forms the rest zone of the garden. A handcrafted bench from New Zealand sits at the far end of the garden near a glass waterfall. Stuart believes that the glass wall of this waterfall is the largest single piece of glass ever used in the UK and possibly Europe.

Plant list: (click on any of the green links below to read more about the plant and to add to your own 'Plants I want' list)

Aconitum 'Newry Blue'
Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'
Aquilegia alpina
Aquilegia vulgaris 'Alba'
Aquilegia 'William Guinness'
Arisaema concinnum
Artemisia lactiflora 'Guizhou'
Aruncus dioicus 'Zweiweltenkind'
Astrantia major
Astrantia major 'Claret'; 'Ruby Wedding'
Baptisia australis
Brizia media
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Forster'
Camassia leichtlinii
Camassia leichtlinii subsp. suksdorfii Caerulea Group
Camassia quamash
Carex elata
Carpinus betulus
Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum'
Deschampia cespitosa
Dierama pulcherrimum 'Blackbird'
Digitalis ferruginea
Hemerocallis 'Coming Up Roses'; 'Kelly's Girl'; 'Little Princess'; 'Little Wart'; 'McMillan Memorial'; 'Metaphor Mauve'; 'Milly Schlumpf'; 'Olive Bailey Langdon'; 'Picardy Pride'; 'Waiting in the Wings'
Hystrix patula
Iris chrysographes 'Black Knight'
Iris siberica 'Cool Spring'; 'Hour Edge'; 'Leo Hewitt'; 'Prussian Blue'; 'Soft Blue'; 'Summer Sky'
Iris x robusta 'Gerald Darby'
Knautia macedonica
Ligularia dentata
Linaria purpurea 'Canon Went'
Lunaria annua var. albiflora
Lunaria redivia
Luzula alpinopilosa
Luzula nivea
Luzula sylvatica
Melica transylvanica 'Atropurpurea'
Miscanthus gracillimus
Molinia caerulea 'Windspiel'
Nectaroscordum siculum
Podophyllum hexandrum 'Majus'
Polygonatum x biflorum
Rosa 'Awakening'; 'Bobbie James'; 'Francois Juranville'; 'Lavinia'; 'Mme Gregoire Staechelin'; 'New Dawn'; 'Rambling Rector'; 'White Cloud'
Salvia pratensis 'Lapis Lazuli'
Salvia x sylvestris 'Mainacht'
Sanguisorba menziesii
Sanguisorba officinalis 'Tanna'
Stipa gigantea
Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Album'; 'Atropurpureum'; 'Thundercloud'
Tragopogon porrifolius
Veratrum album
Verbascum blattaria f. albiflorum
Veronicastrum virginicum 'Lavendelturm'; 'Temptation'