Garden Design in Wiltshire, UK
Location:
Brook House, Wiltshire, UK
Type:
Residential
Scope:
Comprehensive garden design
A contemporary garden design in Wiltshire, extending from the house into a Mediterranean-style gravel garden within a south-facing rural setting. View garden design services.
Project Brief
The brief was for a garden for a family home in Wiltshire, centred around outdoor dining and entertaining within a south-facing rural setting.
A series of connected spaces were required, including areas for gathering, quieter seating, and a structure to support movement through the garden. The lower third of the garden is prone to seasonal flooding.
Design Approach
This garden design in Wiltshire extends from the house onto a Mediterranean-style gravel garden, suited to the south-facing rural setting. Specimen trees, shrubs and perennial planting surround a paved terrace for alfresco dining, creating a sense of privacy.
Gravel walkways pass beneath timber arches, connecting upper and lower parts of the garden. The arches act as a decorative feature while also reinforcing movement and creating moments of intimacy and enclosure.
Behind high beech hedging, narrow paths weave through late summer planting to a more secluded seating area on the western edge of the site.
The lower area of the garden responds to seasonal flooding, adopting a more naturalised and resilient planting approach.
Planting Design
Planting is organised across distinct areas of the garden, each with its own character.
The gravel garden draws on a restrained, Mediterranean-influenced palette, combining lavender, nepeta, perovskia and santolina with grasses and structural forms, informally set within the gravel to create a dry, textural planting scheme.
Within the middle garden, planting becomes more varied, incorporating evergreen structure and seasonal interest through species such as euphorbia, eryngium and daphne, creating a sense of enclosure and continuity between spaces.
The south garden, enclosed by a high beech hedge, introduces a warmer, more expressive palette, with perennials and grasses including salvia, rudbeckia, crocosmia and panicum, bringing richer colour, height and movement into late summer and autumn.
A framework of trees such as amelanchier, malus and prunus provides structure and cohesion across the garden.