Garden design is largely concerned with the design of small gardens and outdoor spaces and also with historic garden conservation.
LEEDS CASTLE case study 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. |
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