IN BRIEF
What Private garden with naturalistic planting.
Where Northumberland.
Size Half an acre.
Soil Neutral. The soil is largely riverbed soil.
Climate Frost pocket. The site experiences extremes of temperatures, reaching -18ºC in winter.
Hardiness zone USDA 8.
Alonely stone cottage, nestling in a North Pennine valley, surrounded by upland hay meadows – it was crying out to be loved. Susie White and her husband David Oakley were so swept away with the setting that they made this idyllic spot their home in 2010. Susie had previously run Chesters Walled Garden in Hexham, and was looking for a home for the thousands of plants she had lifted from that
