The Daily Telegraph by Ulf Nordfjell

By Ulf Nordfjell.The Daily Telegraph Garden, by Swedish landscape architect Ulf Nordfjell, fuses a modern, relaxed Swedish style with traditional English elements, demonstrating how to combine architecture with garden design.

With an emphasis on natural plant communities and practical considerations of climate and sustainability, this garden takes the artistry of the traditional cottage garden and combines it with the discipline of Swedish modernism.

Hardwearing Swedish materials, such as granite, steel, glass and timber, are used throughout; green walls and hedges enclose the garden's open spaces and ensure privacy.

A terrace of flamed granite, featuring a minimalist transparent building of timber and glass overlooking a stylised water creek, offers an all-round view of the garden. The terrace also divides the garden into a sunny, asymmetrical area on one side and a more formal, partly shady area on the other.  The lovely tall white spires above are Eremurus himalaicus (Fox tail lily) for which we list 12 suppliers.

The use of water, transparency, colour, and strong structural planting such as the group of multi-stemmed Pinus sylvestris 'Watereri' at the front of the space, give The Daily Telegraph Garden a subtle, striking and unique character. 

Plants list

You can read more about each plant by clicking the links below. Add any of these plants to you own 'Plants I want' list. To get a copy of this plant list emailed to you (to add to your own Plants I want list) please write to Shoot@ShootGardening.co.uk and title your email Daily Telegraph Garden plants list.

Acanthus spinosus
Alchemilla erythropoda
Anemone sylvestris
Aruncus dioicus 'Kneiffii'
Astelia chathamica 'Silver Spear'
Antenennia dioica
Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'
Butomus umbellatus 'Schneeweisschen'
Brunnera macrophylla 'Betty Bowring'
Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Overdam'
Carex muskingumensis
Citrus limon 'Four Seasons'
Convolvulus cneorum
Crambe maritima
Crambe cordifolia
Cornus kousa
Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora 
Epimedium × rubrum
Eremurus himalaicus (the lovely tall white flowered plants)
Eryngium giganteum 'Silver Ghost'
Euphorbia characias subsp. characias 'Humpty Dumpty'
Euphorbia 'Blackbird'
Festuca gautieri
Fragaria vesca
Gillenia trifoliata
Hakonechloa macra
Iris 'chrysographes black-flowered'
Iris sibirica 'Tropic Night'
Jasminum 'Sambac'
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote'
Lavandula angustifolia
Libertia grandiflora
Liriope muscari 'Monroe White'
Lychnis coronaria 'Alba'
Mathiasella bupleuroides 'Green Dream'
Molinia caerulea subsp. caerulea 'Strahlenquelle'
Ophiopogon japonicus
Papaver orientale 'Perry's White'
Pyrus salicifolia 'Pendula'
Rodgersia podophylla
Rosa × odorata 'Mutabilis'
Rosa 'Rambling Rector'
Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'
Scabiosa columbaria subsp. ochroleuca
Sesleria nitida
Selinum wallichianum
Verbascum 'Clementine'
Veronica gentianoides
Viola cornuta 'Alba Group'
Viola 'Belmont Blue'
Zantedeschia aethiopica 'Crowborough'
Zantedeschia 'Kiwi Blush'