From the drawing board: Oxshott garden one year on…

4 Written by Lisa on 1st Jul 2014 in From the drawing board

I went back to see my Oxshott client, Lisa, last Friday and the garden was looking fabulous.

It was a little challenging to take pictures with the full size cricket net in the middle of the lawn, but it was always meant to be a family garden so I couldn’t really complain!

The planting has really started to mature. The penstemon, lavender and verbena were looking really great.

Lavender in Oxshott garden Lisa Cox Designs

The planting near the house was designed to be a bit wild, with scented roses, lavenders, rosemary and tall spikes of verbena. When you’re sitting on the terrace you feel surrounded by plants.

But the rest of the garden, although informal has a more ordered feel to it.

Other than the wild flower meadow of course!

The front too is looking great and the planting there has really started to fill out. In some ways it feels as though the garden’s been there for years.

And the side access to the back garden feels much less like a passageway now that the plants are maturing there too.

The hardest thing about my job is waiting for the garden to mature into what it was always planned to be. I thought you might like a reminder of how it used to look, so here are a couple of images…

The house of course has changed beyond recognition too, but I hope you agree that the garden is looking pretty fab!

(Images: Lisa Cox)

4 comments

Tagged as , Front Garden Design, Garden Design, Lavender, Penstemon, verbena bonariensis, Wild Flower Turf

4 Responses to “From the drawing board: Oxshott garden one year on…”

Piros says:

May 13, 2015 at 4:51 am

Hi,

First of all, let me congratulate you on that yard! Wow! Amazing! Unfortunately my yard doesn’t look like this a year after having started gardening. So I was wondering how many flowers of one sort do you need to plant in order to get such a full look a year after?

Thank you for your help.

Best Regards,

Piros
Lisa says:

May 13, 2015 at 2:54 pm

Thanks Piros. It very much depends on the plant specie and variety, but most herbaceous perennials I would say 3-5 per m2 depending on their ultimate spread.
Simon says:

June 3, 2020 at 3:46 pm

I know this is an old post, but what a gorgeous garden! I’m just curious to know what the grasses are in the following photo, or are they crocosmia? https://blog.lisacoxdesigns.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Oxshott-planting-Lisa-Cox-Garden-Designs.jpg
Lisa says:

June 4, 2020 at 8:56 am

Thanks Simon. The’re actually day lilies, although not sure of the variety as they were plants we re-used on site.