Exhibitors
Small Gardens
Anderson Landscape Design
Spiral
Designer: Jill Anderson
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The design is based on a logarithmic spiral - a curve of strength and beauty. The spiral shape is interpreted in this garden in the form of irregularly spaced, dark timber uprights resembling a barcode. They reduce in height around the curve to make a pleasing shape that allows transparency through the garden. A wall is painted a soft green as a complementary backdrop to the garden.
The garden includes the latest ‘must-have’ garden item - a laser-cut metal trellis (by designer Susan Bradley) based on a very elaborate design that is best described as ‘outdoor wallpaper’. Timber-edged planters container Buxus balls that are underplanted with Ophiopogon planiscapens ‘Nigrescens’. One side of the garden also has timber planters containing tall grasses underplanted with colourful geraniums and geums.
A circular area of oak decking gives access to the garden and provides a seating area to sit in and enjoy the colour, form and scent of the plants. The hard landscape materials are softened by the colour of the boundary walls and the planting, which comprises small shrubs, grasses, herbs and colourful herbaceous perennials. Contrasting colours such as lime green, blue and dark orange arranged in flowing blocks are interspersed with grasses to form a textured palette.