The garden is a 5 acre walled garden first established in C17 by Sir John Danvers (a previous resident of the Manor) who brought Italianate gardens to the UK – the client has reinstated large herbaceous borders, a new rose garden, an orchard and arboretum centered on a trout stream and duck pond. The Japanese water garden was the final piece to complete the grounds.
The scope of works included deconstructing and rebuilding an existing stream running through this part of the garden – the water levels were never sufficient due to leaks along the streams course. The stream was re-coursed, re-built and rejuvenated.
With restricted access many of the larger materials (1 tonne boulders) had to be manoeuvred manually. The project had to be carefully coordinated to ensure the aesthetic and safe placement of the hand picked glaciated boulders sourced from north Wales.
The garden was built using Pentland paddle stones, galcial boulders, black polished pebbles interspersed with traditional Japanese-style planting such as Azaleas, Hakonechloa macra, Kirengeshoma palmata and, of course Japanese Coral Bark maple, Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ to name a few.