Winter Woodland Garden

An uneven sloping lawn and the family’s old football pitch, separated by a central hedgerow, have now become a beautiful woodland walk with plenty of interest in every season of the year. Beneath the ancient conker trees, maples and birches are now a number of newly formed island beds and sweeping curved borders planted with a native mix of woodland plants. In wintertime the plants provide a succession of colour right through until spring. Stems are a dominant feature and provide colour in reds, oranges, yellows and green from the dogwoods, contrasting dramatically with the pure white barks of the Himalayan Birch trees and the copper tones of a stunning specimen Tibetan Cherry.

What it looked like before: