Walled Garden 🏡

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Aim

Create a low-maintenance, wild flower, food forest garden in an 18th century 2-acre walled garden in Scotland. Naturalistic planting designed in sympathy with the original formal structure. Create wildlife pond and different rooms and areas. The main goal is food and beauty.

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Site

• The walled garden is approx 90m x 90m, with 5m high walls
• There is a house on the south west boundary of the site
• An old glasshouse on the north boundary has potential for renovation

Features

• Renovated glasshouse
• Potting shed in frame yard?
• Geometric wildlife pond
• Sunny socialising area
• Bee hives
• Fire pit & star watching
• Garden open in the middle
• Central feature
• “Coffee & Cocktails” seating areas
• Experiential seating areas, 6-10 of!
• No-dig annual & perennial vegetable plot
• Mediterranean area
• Japanese Garden
• Sequence of windbreak hedges and “rooms”
• Rainwater harvesting

Maintenance

The well-read client! 😎

• Initial planting windbreaks & canopy
• Mowing grass paths initially, 2 mower widths main path
• Maintenance mowing & mulchign trees, 3-4 times per year for 3 years
• Increasing after 3 years
• Full maintenance & creation at 6 years

Files

• GitHub repository
• Download latest CAD file
• PDFs
  • PDF latest
  • PDF outline
  • PDF 1843-1882 garden outline
  • PDF 1888-1913 garden outline
• Maps
  • Satellite image
  • 1843-1882 map
  • 1888-1913 map
  • Contour map

This page online: grwd.uk/walled