A garden woodland | Beautiful Wild Garden and Landscape Design

Newly planted trees create a woodland setting at the back of this large country garden. In autumn the setting sun lights up the fiery Liquidambar leaves.

A hand drawn garden design for a 3 acre country garden. The flat grassy space becomes undulating with woodland walks, an arbour for quiet contemplation, and a children's secret garden away from the main lawn.

Autumn leaves of Nyssa sylvatica and Liquidambar 'Worplesdon' in a woodland garden

Hornbeam, birch and crab apple offer fantastic homes for invertebrates and as their canopies broaden birds will feed and nest there too so this is an ideal way to create a wildlife garden.

A GARDEN WOODLAND

Area: 3 acres

Three wishes guided this design: bring the featureless plot to life with gentle delineation of space; enhance views; and make 3 acres manageable by the clients in a few weekend hours. The answer was simplicity - and trees. 80 were chosen for the diversity of wildlife they would support, seasonal colour and form. Delicate Prunus yedoensis blossoms pale pink around the house in spring. Summer is shades of green allowing the views to dominate. Autumn glows with Nyssa, Liquidambar, Gingko, purple beech and cherries; and low winter sun highlights the bare orange stems of Tilia cordata 'Winter Orange'.

The plan above shows how the structure of the space will emerge over time, curving grass paths, woodland walks and clearings taking shape as the trees grow. A raised stopping point enhances the impact of an oak framed view across the valley (photo below). Another oak is at the centre of a newly formed glade, its swing seat a a welcome surprise. In the Swedish style, inspired by the house, fruit trees are mingled with ornamental woodland. The paths eventually lead to a circle of hawthorn towards the back of the garden, scarlet blossomed in May, where a small arbour is planned with wood burner, chair and writing table, private yet connected to the house by glimpses back through the trees: a room of one's own.

Sunlight bounces off a spider's web between the branches of a hawthorn tree in this large low maintenance woodland garden designed by Beautiful Wild Gardens and Landscapes to offer shelter to wildlife

Views across to the South Downs. The woodland garden design sits comfortably in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Hover here to see the garden before work began

The old house with flat landscape around it

The old house and garden before work began

Paddocks and overgrown market garden vegetable beds

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