An Ipswich Haven

Show garden 2004

Design

Construction Team

Plot size 6m x 6m

Geoff Brace, Owl Design

Geoff Brace, Jim Cooper, Bill Hoar,
David Nightingale, Tom Brace

Inspired by the redevelopment of the Ipswich Waterfront, the garden is designed for a professional couple, who work hard but enjoy their free time away from the daily routine.

Just as the Port of Ipswich offers a haven for boats and a leisure space for the town, this garden gives a place to relax after work, to unwind and to entertain friends.

This garden is an outside room, a tranquil space away from the bustle of work. Carpets of plants contrast with the strong lines of the walls and paving. A cherry tree provides shade and gives a froth of blossom in Spring.

Steel obelisks, enclosing columns of ivy, and steel planters give a vertical element to the garden, while the raised beds bring flowering plants closer to eye level and give informal seating.

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Key planting

Achillea ‘Salmon Beauty
Aquelegia skinneri
Camellia x williamsii ‘Debbie’
Carex flagellifera
Centaurea bella
Dicentra spectabilis ‘Alba’
Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Purpurea’
Euphorbia polychroma
Festuca glauca ‘Elija Blue’
Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpureum’
Fratillaria meleagris
Fratillaria uva-vulpis
Hedera helix ‘Parsley crested’
Helictotrichon sempervirens
Heuchera ‘Chocolate ruffles’
Heuchera ‘Stormy Seas’
Lavandula angustifolium
Nepeta racemosa ‘Walkers Low’
Phormium ‘ Flamingo’
Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘Spectabilis’
Prunus cerasifera ‘Spring Glow’
Rosmarinus officinalis
Thymus serpyllum

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors for their help with this garden: Priory Plants provided excellent advice as well as the beautiful herbaceous plants, 3A Roofing supplied the sandstone paving and brickwork and helped with construction and transport.

Priory Plants

1 Covey Cottages
Hintlesham
Ipswich IP8 3NY

01473 652656

3A Roofing Ltd.

The Laurels
Copdock
Ipswich IP8 3JF

07889 680616
07779 010460