IN BRIEF
What A naturalistic, perennial garden.
Where The Netherlands.
Size 5,000 square metres.
Soil Heavy clay, top-dressed with 10cm sand.
Climate Temperate.
Hardiness zone USDA 8.
In 2020, garden designer Jelle Grintjes and his wife decided to move from a small terraced house in the centre of town to a larger property on the outskirts. Unusually, this also meant relocating a 1,400 square-metre perennial garden that Jelle had made nearby. He’d approached his local municipality in 2013 about renting some disused land in front of his house. “The idea was to make a garden for myself as an experiment, to try different combinations and see if it would work,” he says.
