The Garden House is looking forward to a par
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ticularly special season this year as it prepares to join in a landmark birthday celebration for one of the most famous names in garden design.
Visit England has designated 2016 as the Year of the English Garden to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, renowned for designing some of the country’s greatest landscapes, including Ugbrooke and Mamhead in Devon.
It represents a wonderful opportunity for The Garden House at Buckland Monachorum to raise its profile to as wide an audience as possible - and promote its popular 10 acre English Garden gem that is home to more than 6,000 plant varieties.
There are a number of new developments at the garden to coincide with the celebrations, led by a new planting project in the eye catching Ovals, a particular talking point for visitors with its distinctive curved design.
Head Gardener Nick Haworth has taken inspiration for the plant combination from one of his predecessors Keith Wiley, who is credited with transforming the majority of the garden site during his 25 year tenure as Head Gardener in the 1980s.
The Ovals will combine yellow and blue colours with a background of Meconopsis cambrica, (Welsh Poppy) Saxifraga 'Dentata’ and Mitella breweri, while a central ‘stream’ will be picked out in Corydalis 'Tory M.P.' The display is completed with accent planting of purple/bronze or variegated foliage plants, such as Heucheras and Carex.
"I have always been a great admirer of Keith's naturalistic approach to garden design and I wanted to capture the essence of his original planting in the Ovals in this new project,” said Nick.