BETTENHAM BARN POND KENT

STEPS AND CANTILEVER DECK TO NATURAL POND

WITH NEW PERENNIAL STYLE PLANTING TO BANKS

 

 

CONSTRUCTION | 2016

PLANTING | 2017

 

DESIGN | GEOFF BROWN STUDIO 

CONSTRUCTION | NIGEL SCHOFIELD LANDSCAPING

PLANTING | GEOFF BROWN STUDIO

 

GEOFF BROWN STUDIO TEAM:

SARAH HOWIE | GEOFF BROWN | TOM HUTTON

 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF OAK AND COTSWOLD GRAVEL STEPS LEADING DOWN TO A TIMBER CANTILEVERED DECK AT THE END OF AN EXISTING NATURAL POND.

THE BANKS EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS WERE LINED WITH LEMON DAY LILIES, AND A MIX OF ORNAMENTAL GRASSES AND LIME GREEN, BLUE, AND WHITE FLOWERING PERENNIALS EXTENDING AROUND THE POND. 

THE DECIDUOUS GRASSES RETAIN THEIR STRUCTURE TO PROVIDE WINTER INTEREST.

THE PLANTING PALETTE INCLUDED:

Hemerocallis ‘Lemon Bells’

Molinia caerulea ‘Variagata’

Carex pendula

Echinacea ‘White Swan’

Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Alba’

Agapanthus ‘Northern Star’

Salvia guarantica ‘Black ad Blue’

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Kleine Silberspine’

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Starlight’