Celebrating Cheshire's Year of Gardens 08
Cheshire's Year of Gardens 08 presents Celebrating Cheshire’s Year of Gardens 08, delivered by Chris Beardshaw supported by the Northwest Regional Development Agency.
Cheshire is home to the greatest number of gardens in England, demonstrating a cross-section of the variety and style of English gardens over the past 300 years. This garden has taken inspiration from and celebrates Cheshire’s rich garden heritage.
The garden adopts a vernacular style, using local materials, and displays a unique collection of horticultural gems and a sequence of enticing views from three sides. Two side paths into the garden are flanked by informal planting of long grasses. The presence of the decorative wrought iron gates indicates the transition from informal to formal, and the strong cross-axial line leads the eye along the deep herbaceous borders to the ornate alcove wall. The front view takes in the close-mown turf and the full effect of the herbaceous and grass planting, punctuated by structural shrubs and contained by a formal hedge boundary, ending at the rear of the garden which is framed by large trees.
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