Coastal garden design

These clients were in the process of renovating and upgrading a lovely house which was surrounded on all sides by a large garden. For their front garden they wanted to create a low maintenance flowering shrub and ornamental grass border that included spring bulbs around a 5m circular pond. Living in St. Andrew’s and therefore near to the coast, the plants would have to cope with salt laden winds but would also need to fit into a garden which had a woodland feel to it. The border was to act as a visual screen with plants nearest the road to grow to around 2 metres in height.

Plants used in this design:

Fuchsia ‘Riccartonii’ | Azalea ‘Geisha Purple’ | Ceanothus ‘Blue Mound’ | Phormium ‘Evening Glow’