Height and division

Our plot is flat. It may be on the side of a hill but believe me it is flat. I have used the term that the plot was gouged out of the hillside and this really is the case. The way we add height and use division of the areas will be key to the layout and design of the garden.

Prior to the groundworks beginning, all we had was a patchy lawn and the eye would jump to the far ends of the garden. But with division of the areas and the introduction of height using trees and hedging this will all change.

The first application of this philosophy has been the planting of a pleached Hornbean hedge that backs onto the new vegetable garden. This hedge will eventually surround the vegetable garden from the main garden and in time look wonderfully ornamental. But even in its current immature state, the architectural nature of the hedge is there for all to see.