IN BRIEF
What Family garden created from two cottage gardens featuring an Apothecary’s Garden and contemporary, cottage-garden planting
Size 300 square metres,
Where Buckinghamshire,
Soil Clay.
Climate Temperate English climate, not too cold or too wet.
Hardiness zone USDA 9.
You could be forgiven for thinking that you had walked into a particularly floriferous meadow throughout much of the garden that designer Sue Townsend has created in the Chilterns. This was entirely intentional. The garden was originally two separate cottage gardens, and part of Sue’s brief was to make the two gardens blend together,