The Lady Baillie Garden at Leeds Castle was opened in 1999 by HRH Princess Alexandra. Formerly occupied by Lady Baillie’s aviary, the site is steep and narrow, facing south-west across the Great Water to the park beyond. Dramatic new terraces were formed: the folded retaining wall in brick matching the older buildings above encloses a series of intimate sun-traps, rich with Mediterranean and subtropical plants and providing flowers throughout the year.
The comfortable scale of the garden belies its careful design to withstand the pressure of up to half a million visitors a year. For example, ingenious detailing permits the seamless use of loose gravel edges, into which plants can spread or self-seed, to the hardwearing bitumen-bound main pathways.
- CONSERVATION PLAN
- MASTERPLAN PROPOSALS
- DETAIL DESIGN
- plANTING DESIGN
- IMPLEMENTATION
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