Cotswold Garden

When redesigning the grounds of this Georgian house, set within a steeply sloping site, the aim was to design a family garden that complemented the period architecture whilst feeling relaxed and connected to the surrounding Cotswold landscape, with year-round interest and naturalistic planting.

The design is centred around a beautiful pond which reflects the house facade; a rill was created to channel a spring, flowing through the lawn and into the pond.

The main challenges were the gradient, which dropped away across several levels, and the need to balance formal areas near the house with a softer transition into the wider landscape. Engineered retaining walls in local stone create usable and accessible planting levels and provide structure to the garden. Planted flower beds move into wildflower meadow with mown grass paths further from the house.