Simple closeness to nature
A few years ago, a new building was added to an old farmhouse for the client on the same plot. The large meadow area between the two houses was to be utilised in the future and serve as a meeting place for the residents of both houses. A green oasis was created between the houses in the middle of the meadow. Curved gravel paths bring the two properties together and lead to the shared lounge, which invites residents to enjoy a cosy get-together. Surrounded by lush herbaceous borders with flowering shrubs, you can enjoy being close to nature.
A hedge as a privacy screen and three multi-stemmed specimen trees not only protect against prying eyes, but are also an attractive design element in this rural garden. With the residential buildings behind, the view sweeps over the fruit trees and the landscape surrounding the property. In addition to the cosy lounge area, a wellness area provides hours of relaxation. Well hidden between shrubs, a wooden wall and a solitary tree, the whirlpool can be enjoyed undisturbed. The wood-clad whirlpool blends harmoniously into the rural surroundings, which also feature plenty of wood. From here you can enjoy a fantastic view of the surrounding landscape and feel surrounded by nature.
Inviting entrance area
A simple planting of grasses, hydrangeas and flowering shrubs enhances the client’s entrance area. The solitary shrubs accompany the gravel path to the newly built house. A generous staircase leads down to the entrance and merges into seat-high walls. These delimit and mark the forecourt of the entrance to the house, giving it more weight. The little wall can be used for sitting or for decorating the entrance to the house. A gravelled forecourt in the shade provides a cosy seating area with a bistro table and two chairs. As soon as you enter the property, the lovingly designed entrance area welcomes the owners and their guests.
Before the garden remodelling & after




Planting
Trees
- Syringa vulgaris (lilac)
- Acer palmatum, umbrella form (fan-shaped maple)
- Cornus kousa, umbrella form (flowering dogwood)
- Amelanchier lamarckii, umbrella form (copper rock pear)
Shrubs
- Perovskia ‚Blue Spire‘ (blue rue)
- Ligustrum ovalifolium (privet)
Perennials/grasses
- Actaea ‚Chocoholic‘ (silver candle)
- Anemone hupehensis ‚September Charm‘ (Autumn Anemone)
- Aquilegia ‚Kristall‘ (columbine)
- Aquilegia ‚Musik Rosa weiss‘ (columbine)
- Aster ‚Eleven Purple‘ (Aster)
- Aster frikartii (x) ‚Monk‘ (Aster)
- Echinacea purpurea ‚Virgin‘ (coneflower)
- Echinops ritro ‚Veitch’s Blue‘ (globe thistle)
- Geranium ‚Lilac Ice‘ (cranesbill)
- Helleborus niger (Christmas rose)
- Heuchera micrantha ‚Palace Purple‘ (purple bell)
- Hosta ‚Halcyon‘ (Funkia)
- Iris ‚Harbor Blue‘ (iris)
- Paeonia ‚Shirley Temple‘ (Peony)
- Salvia nemorosa ‚Caradonna‘ (sage)
- Stachys byzantina ‚Big Ears‘ (Zieste)
- Tiarella wherryi (foam flower)
- Carex morrowii (Japanese sedge)
- Hakonechloa macra (mountain grass)
- Melica ciliata (eyelash pearl grass)
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‚Hamelin‘ (lamp cleaner grass)
- Pennisetum orientale (lamp cleaner grass)
- Allium aflatunense ‚Purple Sensation‘ (Purple globe leek)
- Narcissus ‚Mount Hood‘ (Narcissus)
- Narcissus ‚Thalia‘ (Narcissus)
- Scilla siberica ‚Alba‘ (Siberian blue star)
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