The Urban Retreat Garden

By Garden Designer Richard Golding Garden Design and Manor Landscapes. The garden has been designed to provide a retreat where one can relax and escape the pressures of everyday modern living.

It is primarily intended for a busy working couple, provides space for entertaining, but is also family friendly; safety measures have been incorporated in the design of the water feature.

The fences are two metres high to provide screening but to afford improved visitor viewing of the show garden. The garden contains two structures made from locally sourced Oak: arches to provide support for the climbing plants whilst also framing the soft curves of the pathway.

The gazebo is the structure which forms a focal point and draws the eye within the garden as well as providing a secluded place to sit and relax on warm sunny days.

The water feature consists of a 0.5 metre globe that nestles among pebbles again echoing the curves of the paving design.

The water is pumped up the centre and flows over the globe producing a soothing sound to quieten the urban hum, drawing your focus away from the outside world and back to the natural environment.

 

Plants List

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Acer negundo 'Flamingo' 
Deutzia scabra  
Lavandula 
Cercidiphyllum japonicum 
Hydrangea 'Annabelle' 
Hebe salicifolia 
Rhus typhina 
Acer palmatum 'Atropurpureum' 
Hosta fortunei 'Francee' 
Phormium 'Red Sensation' 
Hebe 'Spender's Seedling' 
Cornus alba 'Elegantissima'  
Elaeagnus 'Quicksilver' 
Hosta 'Halcyon' 
Stipa arundinacea 
Phalaris arundinacea var. picta 
Agapanthus 
Hosta fortunei var. aureomarginata 
Spiraea 'Goldflame' 
Heuchera 'Marmalade' 
Carex elata 'Aurea' 
Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald 'n' Gold' 
Penstemon 'Garnet' 
Hosta 'August Moon' 
Malus 
Carpinus betulus 
Betula pendula 
Phormium 'Platts Black' 
Carex comans 
Perovskia atriplicifolia 
Humulus lupulus 'Aureus' 
Phyllostachys bissetii  
Fuchsia 'Mrs Popple' 
Fuchsia 'Tom Thumb' 
Trachelospermum jasminoides  
Celastrus orbiculatus