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GARDENS & LANDSCAPES 1.
THE DESIGNER’S GUIDE TO CREATING THE PERFECT GARDEN
THIS SUMMERLOOK OUT FOR
OPEN GARDENS TO VISIT THIS MONTH
WABI-SABIJAPANESE GARDENING
GARDENS& LANDSCAPESwww.leicestershiregardendesign.co.ukMonthly edition | August 2018
LOOKING AFTER LAVENDERHOW TO PRUNE FOR BEST RESULTS
A Premium GardenFor High-Class Hospitality
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NO TO MOWTo encourage butterflies
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This month in Gardens & Landscapes we focus on gardens created for grandeur. Whether it’s an average domestic
back garden or acres of rolling hills, grandeur is created by the choice of materials and considered design, utilising the space and surroundings for what they are rather than fighting against them. I’m sure we’ve all longed for a large flat space to work with ,but it’s the different levels that make a space interesting. We can see from Mr and Mrs Batchelor’s new garden, a once unusable slope was turned into three smaller, but more purposeful tiers. The Cascade Fountain at Chatsworth Gardens was cut into a steep slope, each step creating a different sound as the water cascades over it. The Emperor Fountain in the Grand Canal powered by gravity, proving that seemingly unworkable levels can work in your favour.
On the other hand of perfect precision, there’s a Japanese concept that is just as beautiful. Later we discuss the Buddhist philosophy of wabi-sabi, “beauty in imperfection.” Perhaps not to everyone’s standards, but in times of sustainability and recycling, leaving things in the hands of nature and the elements may sound appealing and you’ll be right on trend.
JODIE FEDORKO, EDITOR
Welcome
ON THE COVERMr and Mrs Batchelor, Rugby 2018
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1. Editors Letter A few words from Jodie.
2. Thoughts/Advice What to do in your garden this month.
3. 4. Case Study A stylish garden designed for
high-quality hospitality.
5. On trend Japanese theme.6. 7. Plant Profile Astrantia major, understated
elegance.8. 9. Chatsworth Gardens The splendour and
history.10. 11. Nod to Nature Support our wildlife this
August.12. 13. Get the look How you can get the
Chatsworth look in your garden.
14. Gardens to Visit Open gardens in your area this month.
15. Word Search A bit of down time.
16. Competition Time Last month’s winner revealed.
AUGUST 2018
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4. GARDENS & LANDSCAPES
be greyer in colour. On established plants the aim of pruning would be to remove flower stalks and about 2.5cm (1in) of the current year’s growth. Use secateurs to do this, ensuring that some green growth remains for future spring growth.
THINGS TO DO
• Bird baths will quickly evaporate or become full of algae growth in the summer. Remember to clean them out regularly to help our birds during the worst heat.
• Keep patio container plants well-watered and feed with a liquid fertiliser every fortnight.
• Cut back herbs now to encourage a new flush of tasty leaves you can harvest before the frost.
Thoughts of aGARDEN DESIGNER
Hey, it’s Jeff here,
What a scorching few weeks we’ve had!
In this country, we always need some form of shelter from the elements whether it’s from the blistering sun or the lashings of rain that we’re more used to. Entertaining doesn’t have to be hindered by the weather. You can make the most of your garden whatever the weather with a timber shelter.
These solid timber structures are a great feature to any size garden as they can be made to measure, either in softwood or hardwood; the Cedar shingle adds charming character to an outdoor kitchen or bar area. Attractive and useful. Wow your friends at your next BBQ.
Regards
Jeff Randall
Lavender is simply charming. The fragrance is incredibly nostalgic for most people and the bees and butterflies love it too. It is a low maintenance shrub, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t require a little attention. With all the advice around, it can be difficult to understand how it’s best to keep your lavender under control.
Lavenders require a little more than a simple deadhead. Over time, they can grow leggy and woody if left too long before pruning. This can also happen with age and there will be a time where your lavender will just need replacing. In order to keep a compact moulded shape, the best time to prune is after flowering in late August. Lavender is forgiving if you get the timings slightly out, but the one thing that it won’t respond to well is cutting it back to old wood. Some shoots may form at the base, but it isn’t a risk worth taking.
Lavender will flower on stems that have grown in the current season and it’s very easy to see the current year’s growth. The new growth on French lavender will be greener in colour and be fairly flexible in the stem, older growth beneath it will
August AdviceWHAT TO DO
Keep your French lavender in CHECK
Bathing
GARDENS & LANDSCAPES 5.
Before
THE BATCHELOR CASE STUDY
Location: Rugby
How long did it take? 45 days
When was it built?March 2018
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View from the top
A stylish garden designed for HIGH-QUALITY hospitality
Where it began
Our clients, based in Rugby, asked us to completely redesign their rear garden. The garden sloped upwards away from the house and felt quite disjointed with no cohesion or links. Our task was to turn this neglected outdoor space into a stylish setting for some high-quality hospitality.
Central to this design were the seating and entertainment spaces. White rendered walling and bull-nosed steps were installed to allow access to the second tier of the garden and to create a large usable space on the first level. Sawn Versuro paving was used for the patio space and seating area, while Marshalls Pennant grey Tegula setts were laid to form the contours and flow around
the new Elliott’s medallion turf to provide easy maintenance and a permanent shape to the lawn. We also used Pennant grey Tegulas to define the shape of the paving and fire pit space.
The raised outdoor kitchen and entertainment area were constructed with sawn stone cladding and sawn stone surfaces. The kitchen includes a built-in four burner BBQ, an under-counter double fridge and a built-in bar section. Over the top, we erected a timber structure out of pressure treated timbers with a waterproof cedar shingle roof to cover both the outdoor kitchen and entertainment area and to protect from the rain.
The fire pit was sunken in at the current lawn height to create a cosy
spot in the corner of the garden. Another highlight is the blade water feature installed in the top flowerbed to give an additional focal point and bring sound and interest to the garden.
The end results
This landscape garden design offers the ultimate home outdoor entertaining area – complete with fire pit, built-in seating and a fully operational kitchen.
To ensure it stays looking fantastic we will pay four complimentary maintenance visits over the next 12 months to keep everything looking fresh and new.
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3D Design
Pristine Patio
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In our quest for constant perfection, there’s some great news for the more hands-off amongst us. The Japanese concept wabi-sabi is an inspiring way of looking at your garden and can be defined as “beauty in imperfection.” The wabi sabi aesthetic grew out of Buddhist philosophy in Japan and involves an appreciation for the forms and changes of natural landscapes. A garden based around wabi-sabi incorporates natural and manmade elements in a way that allows visitors to appreciate their humble and imperfect forms and the acceptance
of the natural cycle of growth, decay and death.
To explore natural changes in your wabi sabi garden, plant perennials and self-seeding plants that will establish their own corners of the garden over the course of years. Place stones in locations that will not receive foot traffic so that moss and lichens will grow over them. Repurposing old man-made objects is another part of wabi sabi garden design. For example, you can place iron objects that will rust over time,
such as old gardening tools and gates, around your garden. Adding plants that provide natural textures in different seasons, like a tree with textured or peeling bark, is a great way to do this.
The key here is balancing nature and nurture, so sit back, relax and reflect on the beauty of your garden’s natural imperfections. Overgrown perennials, moss-covered stones, rusty iron gates and weathered pots are suddenly bang on-trend.
Japanese ThemedON TREND
This much-loved perennial ticks all the boxes for gardeners and garden designers alike. It is striking, yet in an understated way with its small pin cushion like flowers that bloom profusely from June to September, which never fail to catch our eye. Traditionally a cottage garden perennial that’s planted amongst other favourites such as Lupins and Delphiniums, it’s a perfect plant for attracting bees and butterflies and makes a great cut flower too.
They can also tolerate partial shade so instead of planting en masse in garden borders, planting amongst Dryopteris ferns in smaller clumps
is a great way to bring a little colour to dappled shade. A dark coloured flower next to a lush green fern leaf looks especially spectacular. Astrantia grow to up a metre in height and don’t spread very far, however they are known to self-set so to avoid any unwanted offspring, deadhead as the flowers fade. You’ll be spoilt for choice on the colour range of Astrantia, from greenish white to dark crimson red, you can create a beautiful sweeping border. Frequently stocked in garden centres and used readily by garden designers in show gardens and in private gardens. Don’t let the Astrantia pass you by!
Astrantia MajorPLANT PROFILE
Astrantia
UNDERSTATED ELEGANCE
GARDENS & LANDSCAPES 7.
When it comes to historic English gardens, even the most avid gardening enthusiast will be hard pushed to find anywhere to better the 105 acres of painstakingly maintained horticultural delights offered by Chatsworth in Derbyshire. From guided educational tours to a series of public events, Chatsworth Gardens continues to attract visitors throughout the open season.Fed by the estate’s own lake, the famous water features including the Trout Stream, Canal Pond, and Cascade are an integral part of the Chatsworth’s rich historical heritage. This includes a history of careful and considered cultivation, expansion, and renovation that has been faithfully continued through the last five centuries.
The history of Chatsworth Gardens
Visitors to the gardens today are able to benefit from the amazing series of water features that have been added to Chatsworth by subsequent owners over the last 300 years. The original owners and builders were Sir William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick who commissioned the first and considerably smaller Elizabethan garden way back in 1555. From the outset, water was a key feature of Chatsworth and the Ring Pond is one of the few originals that have survived since the 17th century.By the beginning of the 19th century, the early garden at Chatsworth
had fallen into neglect and Joseph Paxton was appointed by the 6th Duke to carry out a huge programme of challenging restorations. As the head gardener, Paxton started the extensive works round about 1825, however, most of what visitors see at Chatsworth today has been created or renovated from 1858 onwards. In fact, most of the major restoration work has been carried out during the last 60 – 70 years.
The modern Chatsworth Gardens
Little if any changes were made by the 7th and 8th Dukes during the residence at Chatsworth between the years of 1808 to 1908 and not without good reason. While the 6th Duke, and his head gardener, Joseph Paxton had undertaken a colossal task in renovating the dilapidated garden inherited from his father, the financial burden was also immense. The resultant debt was left to the subsequent residing Dukes and this explains the long period where the gardens were maintained rather than developed any further.
Making the most of Chatsworth Gardens
With 105 acres of gardens to navigate, visitors to the gardens are more likely to get the most from their visit with a little forward planning. A visit to Chatsworth House’s official website at www.chatsworth.org will provide some really useful
downloadable guides, including the hidden gems trail and the little explorer’s trail. One of the biggest attractions at the Gardens is, of course, the water features, including the huge Emperor Fountain that reaches heights of over 290 feet and the equally spectacular Cascade. The Cascade is constructed in the form of 24 separate and differing groups of paving stone steps. Along with most of the garden’s other water features, both the Emperor and Cascade are gravity powered by water that is fed from the estate’s large man-made lake.
Be Amazed
No stately home garden would be complete without a maze and Chatsworth’s recent addition has been around since 1962 when the 11th Duke, Andrew Cavendish commissioned it on the former site of Joseph Paxton’s Glasshouse. Laid out in a circular configuration, the maze was created using over 1200 English Yews.
Awaken your senses
One of Chatsworth’s most recent additions is the sensory garden which was created at the instruction of the son of the 12th Duke in 2003. The area has been laid out with the aim of impacting on all five human senses and it does exactly that in a riot of stunning colour, sound, and scents.
The Splendour and History of Chatsworth Gardens
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Signature PlantsFAVOURED PLANTS FROM THE GARDEN
Acers are generally at their best in the autumn time when the red tones are particularly vivid. They are a feature in themselves as specimens, but positioned amongst a backdrop of mighty trees, just sets them off.
Grown as centre pieces up to 1m tall in the parterre rose garden at Chatsworth, the pure white fragrant flowers provide a clean background for the array of colorful roses in front of them.
Out of season now, but their leaves still remain lush throughout the season in evergreen varieties. The lily like flower bloom a range of colours and are best suited in a woodland setting.
Not for the faint hearted as this can grow huge, but its Jurassic like appearance works well next to large areas of open water if you are fortunate enough to have a lot of space.
Grown as hedges or as topiary, yew is incredibly versatile. Its dense habit and hardy nature make it tolerant of many soil conditions. Clipped into a formal hedge or topiary makes them solid specimens to add structure to the garden.
JAPANESE ACERS PHLOX ‘WHITE ADMIRAL’HORNBEAM HEDGING
AZALEA GUNNERA YEW
No to MowIt isn’t difficult to encourage wildlife into your garden without comprising the way it looks. Encouraging breeding grounds for butterflies doesn’t necessarily mean gardens full of nectar. Let an area of grass grow long and meadow brown butterflies should breed in it. But it’s not generally lawn grass or ornamental grasses which are used, so if you have new turf, it’s unlikely to work.
Among the best are fescues and meadow grasses as they are wild grasses, not ornamental. You can now buy turf rolls that include meadow grasses, these can look very attractive if laid in a sweeping swathe.
Nod to NatureYOUR MONTHLY GUIDE TO ENCOURAGING AND CARING FOR WILDLIFE IN YOUR GARDEN
A variety of hedging used commonly across Chatsworth, favoured for its tolerance to adverse conditions and spectacular autumn colour as it retains most of its brown leaves over the winter just before new shoots form in the spring.
GARDENS & LANDSCAPES 9.
GET THE Chatsworth Gardens Look
STATUE CUT OUTSYou can easily give your garden a stately home feel without the price tag by placing a renaissance style statue in tall hedging. This could be any hedging that you trim annually to a formal shape. Maintain the cut out frequently around the statue to give that well-manicured feel.
Summer Watch What to look out for
Come mid-August many birds have already left for Africa although house martins and swallows stick around a little longer, gathering in flocks. At dusk these can be seen dipping in and out view in front of a red tinged sky or as silhouettes lined up on telephone wires, signalling the autumn is approaching.
Keep bird baths topped up for our shy, all year-round residents, who will be tempted out of hedges and thickets in the early morning.
BIRDSFOOT TREFOILLotus Corniculatus
Lotus corniculatus is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows to roughly 60cm long with clusters of yellow pea-like flowers mainly in drier soils. Birdsfoot trefoil is rich in nectar and flowers during the early part of spring and summer, and is therefore most likely to attract bees plus varieties of butterfly such as the common blue and meadow brown butterflies, the larvae of which feed well on them.
Swooping swallows
Pea-like flowers
BOULDERS & ROCK GARDENSOf course, Chatsworth has the space for very large boulders, but a stone garden works in any informal setting, the size and quantity is just adapted. Old, reclaimed rock works best as it’ll have years of lichen and moss. Think wabi-sabi as referenced earlier.
TERRACED GARDENSNot on the same scale as Chatsworth, but most gardens nowadays have some form of level change. It’s the different heights that make a garden interesting. Utilise this change in level instead of fighting against it. The fountains are powered by gravity and are stepped, cutting into the slope. Elsewhere the banks are retained by rocks but in a smaller garden this could be retained with sleepers, as long as there is a flat plane between each tier.
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5 Burton Lane Whatton in the Vale
Modern cottage garden which is productive and highly decorative. Gardened organically and for wildlife. Large beds are filled with over 500 varieties of plants with paths through so you can wander and get close.
Bank holiday Monday 27th August (1:30pm-5pm) Entry £5.00, children free. Home-made teas.
The White House FarmHoughton-on-the-Hill
Former Georgian farm in two acres of country garden. Herbaceous borders lead to pools with water lilies & informal cascade. Then orchard, wild garden and lake. Home for lots of wildlife.
Sunday 5th August (11:00pm -5pm) Entry £5.00, children free. Light refreshments.
Dale FarmNorthampton
Dale Farm is a two acres of garden, with formal hedging and trees. Flower borders near the house and secluded vegetable garden with cutting flowers. The garden has lovely views over the surrounding countryside, including the neighbouring stone barn.
Sunday, 12th August (11:00am-4pm) Entry £4.00, children free. Home-made teas in the summerhouse.
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