The M&G Retreat Garden

The M&G Garden features a two-storey oak framed building inspired by the writing room of poet Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst Castle, a large natural swimming pond edged with water-loving plants, a woodland of river birches, acacias and acers, and a garden with tumbling roses and peonies in a palette of greens, punctuated by soft pinks, lavender blues and creams, with a touch of orange.

Partially covered by trees and lush planting, The M&G Garden design for 2015 draws on Jo’s local influences: from the vernacular architecture features synonymous with the Sussex and Kent countryside where she currently lives, to the use of Purbeck stone at the far end of the swimming pond owing to her childhood in Dorset.

The romantic garden represents a quintessentially British restorative retreat, where visitors will be able to unwind away from the hustle and bustle of city living.

Plant list  

Ferns

Perennials

Annuals

Roses

Trees and shrubs