Cottage Garden, Chiddingfold

This striking new-build home provided a beautiful architectural canvas but lacked the planting needed to soften its clean lines and connect it to the surrounding landscape. The brief was to introduce colour, texture and year-round interest to the front garden, rear borders and a newly created raised bed beneath an established willow tree.

Striking new-build home with clean architectural lines softened by new planting
Newly created raised bed beneath an established willow tree
Rear borders filled with colour and texture connecting the house to the landscape

The east-facing front garden combines roses and hydrangeas for long-lasting summer colour, complemented by the dusky tones of delphiniums and Japanese anemones. Evergreen shrubs provide year-round structure, while generous drifts of spring tulips create an early burst of colour before the summer display takes over.

Roses and hydrangeas bringing long-lasting summer colour to the front garden
Dusky delphiniums and Japanese anemones threaded through the east-facing border
Drifts of spring tulips rising among evergreen shrubs for early season colour
Thoughtful planting transforms a new-build from a house into a home, softening architecture and bringing the garden to life through every season.

To the rear, the planting shifts towards a woodland character beneath the willow, where thalictrum, hellebores, polemoniums, ferns and shade-tolerant grasses create a rich tapestry of texture and foliage.

Woodland style planting sheltering in the dappled shade of the willow
Airy thalictrum and hellebores layered through the rear border
Ferns and shade-tolerant grasses forming a rich tapestry of foliage
Polemoniums and soft textural planting filling the raised bed

Terracotta containers beside the patio provide seasonal interest close to the house, while newly planted hawthorns and a multi-stem Amelanchier bring spring blossom, light structure and year-round beauty to the garden.

Terracotta containers beside the patio offering seasonal colour close to the house
Multi-stem Amelanchier and young hawthorns adding light structure and blossom