Linden's garden is very small
but offers a wide variety of charming areas.
Plants in pots, (there are over
200 of them!) and comfortable benches provide several areas in which to sit and entertain friends.
While the planting in a small sunken
garden offers a quiet place to sit and read a book, or
just meditate in peace.
The pots and planters, grouped
in the garden and around the walls of the cottage, contain
trees, shrubs, grasses, herbs, alpines, perennials and annuals,
all thriving in their situation. Created from a blank canvas in
2002. Garden Affairs have landscaped the sunken garden, built the steps and
paved the garden area.
The photos featured in the
slide show (left) were taken on a dull day in June 2007.
Garden
Affairs provided the traditional water-but, a wooden barrel, which
stands on the left of the steps leading to the garden.
Opposite,
a pretty low growing Willow is clipped to tumble over the wall
behind the planters clustered near the bench on the right of the
entrance.
With several
attractive wrought iron supports for the Honeysuckle and
Clematis,
height was added to the garden.
The trellis for the young
Wisterias encourages their growth to frame the a window, while
an arch over the entrance steps for the Rose to climb, will soon
make a welcoming and scented entrance to the garden. The
small lean-to greenhouse - Linden's idea - is a charming,
practical and useful addition to her lovely garden. 'Small' is
certainly quite 'beautiful' here!
