Avoid Buxus balls
When we moved to our house 6 years ago, we missed the garden in our old house terribly. Our old garden was designed by Chris Harrington at Harrington Porter and was the ultimate in urban sheek. Clean lines, architectural raised bed planters with a floating bench, smart painted fences, artificial lawn (did I say how much I love low maintenance?!) and an elegant pallet of purple and white flowers. We were sad to leave it behind.
One of the first things we did after moving to our new house was to get Chris over to talk about our vision for the new garden. Now that our garden was bigger than our last, we had to be prepared to work on a bigger scale than last time and work even more carefully to zone the areas to make sure the area worked.
The reason I’ve now worked with Harrington Porter twice is their philosophy of creating gardens that are like ‘rooms without roofs’. When you have a well-designed garden, it well and truly becomes an extension of your house.
This time around I was keen to incorporate some of our own ideas.
Since we had
Photography credit: Harrington Porter