Project Brief:

• A large Nat­ural pond & Boat House sit­u­ated within a hedged part of the gar­den, which can­not be seen from the main part of the garden.
• The boat house is con­structed from brick­work & tim­ber frame to repli­cate an old coun­try barn, the roof on the boat house is a recliamed slate roof with a lead & mop­stick flash­ing to the ridges.
• The cladding which will cover the walls of the boat house is a locally sourced Ash & will be cut into feather egde board & pro­tected with a colour­less sealer.
• Plant­ing around the pond will include a vari­ety of native marginal’s & bog plants includ­ing Gun­nera, Flag Iris, Prim­ula & bull-Rush, a path­way of “water­side meadow turf” which will flow down to the waters’ edge.

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The plant­ing used in this project will take around a sea­son to estab­lish itself, the banks that run down to the path­way that sur­ronds the pond have been “seeded” with the same wild­flower plants that are used in the water­side meadow turf, the mar­ginal plant­ing will thicken dur­ing the sum­mer months, the marginal’s were cho­sen very care­fully, firstly they are all british native plants which will give colour from April/May right through until Oct/November & sec­ondly to attrach new wildlife into the sur­rond­ing area.

So keep watch­ing this blog, as we will be return­ing in 2011 to take some updated photo’s of this beau­ti­ful gar­den & pond.

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