The gentle caress of spring encourages a kaleidoscope of colours to shine brightly through the garden at Pine House. There’s an exuberant ‘Rudolph’ crab apple, resplendent in its coat of pink blossom, and the walls of the old coach house are daubed with the contrasting yellows and blues of Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’ and Ceanothus ‘Concha’. There’s the chartreuse zing of Smyrnium perfoliatum racing around the borders, the jewel-like goblets of tulips rising up from eye-catching blue barrels, and a froth of cow parsley drifting beneath clouds of verdant tree foliage in the spinney. There’s joy to be found around every corner of this much-loved garden in the Leicestershire village of Gaddesby.
Sue Milward has overseen the creation of an outside space that’s fun, interesting and, ultimately, lovely; applying ideas from famous gardens and being prepared to experiment
