Controlling the setting

The classical garden, with its carefully designed clean lines and formal structure, has boundaries that must marry up with its setting.

In this garden, note the use made of evergreens such as Taxus baccatta hicksii and Thuja in a tapestry hedge to provide a clean external boundary between the formal area and its setting.

From within, framed views have been used to good effect. Elsewhere throughout the garden, careful layout design ensures that features within the formal garden become focal external attractions.