Town Garden - Woolich Arsenal, London

 

Design Inspiration

This project is to create a new garden for a town house built in the 1840s in the Woolich Arsenal area of London. The history of the house had focused around the Victorian period when it had been the family home to an officer from Woolich Arsenal and his family. The present owners had restored the house in the former Victorian style and in keeping with the owners efforts inside we decided to create a Victorian style garden.

 

The Victorian period was a great period for gardening with many new ideas and plants arriving from all over the world, the private garden in homes such as this one, would have been the final destination for all that was new in gardening at that time. Often the gardens in this period centred around buildings and structures that created the feeling of being in a famous landscape such as the city of Rome or a scaled down version of the typical English country landscape as seen in many of constables paintings.

 

After careful consideration we decided to focus on 4 key elements for the design -

1. A structure at the end of the garden as a vista point.
2. Formal water feature
3. Trained fruit trees on the gardens walls
4. Group plantings of shrubs to form large borders

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