Description

A new home in a residential estate in Martinborough gave the opportunity to create a garden from scratch. With wind protection and privacy in mind, a structured framework of hedging
was planted to create a series of partitioned ‘rooms’ within the garden. These defi ne the garden without closing off views to the surrounding rural landscape, which becomes an integral part
of the garden.

Evergreen hedges of corokia, viburnum and teucrium provide contrasts in colour and texture, and deciduous beech, which holds its leaves through the winter, marks the changing of the
seasons.

Grape vines sprawling over the timber pergolas provide shade in the summer, and the espaliered crab apple trees, thriving against a north facing wall mimic the horizontal lines of the hedging and
add striking colour.

Project Contribution

Lead designer: Hamish Moorhead

Concept design, developed design, planting
design.