IN BRIEF
What Contemporary garden with an emphasis on natural-style planting.
Where Oxfordshire.
Soil Alluvial silt with green sand pockets in low spots and subjected to prolonged winter flooding.
Size One acre, surrounded by orchard, nuttery, woodland and wildlife refuge.
Climate The house sits in an open frost pocket where winter temperatures quite regularly drop to -10ºC.
Hardiness zone USDA 8.
Chris and Toby Marchant’s home is a little like something out of a fairy tale. In the middle of the arable flatlands of Oxfordshire this delightful timber-framed house sits nestled among trees and surrounded by a garden that weaves and unfolds in surprising ways.
To this sudden
