Large Family Garden in Wimbledon

An extensive walled garden for a family in Wimbledon. With energetic teenagers, the large lawn provided plenty of space for football practice, basketball and table tennis. The sunken terrace provides a suntrap and entertaining area with easy access from the refurbished kitchen and family room in the lower ground floor.

The client brief asked for a romantic English garden with formal herbaceous borders. These flank the lawn and repeated Yew topiary pyramids give structure to these borders in winter. A glasshouse, and specially designed iron pergolas, trained with a selection of eating apple trees, lead to matching iron gates that open into the wild garden beyond, meadow lawns and an informal pond for wildlife.