\u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe house, now happily settled, and with its reclaimed Kent peg tiles and red brick, rustic shiplap and Arts and Crafts<\/a> leanings looking as though it has always been there, is separated from the barn (now barely recognisable with its modern surround of glass and timber) by a sloped series of three brick-faced terraces<\/a>. The texture-rich beds are crammed full of Great Dixter-inspired planting:<\/a> high-waving Molinia grasses, architectural Euphorbia <\/em>x pasteurii<\/em> and airy Cephalaria gigantea<\/em> are punctuated with large pittosporum balls, creating a see-through hedge<\/a> that both links and divides the two living spaces. The owner explains: \u201cLooking out at the terrace from my office in the barn, the planting provides interest all year, from bulbs in the spring to grasses<\/a> constantly moving in the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moving on across York stone terraces that cover a former farmyard, there\u2019s a change of mood. Here a tranquil, shady spot with a fountain in a formal garden of box-surrounded, pleached hornbeams, backed with Hydrangea arborescens<\/em> \u2018Annabelle\u2019, and climbing star jasmine and Clematis<\/em><\/a> \u2018Alba Luxurians\u2019, overlooks an understated swimming pool<\/a>. This is surrounded by a low, beech<\/a> hedge punctuated with sanguisorbas<\/a>, Verbena bonariensis<\/a><\/em>, Calamagrostis<\/em> x acutiflora<\/em> \u2018Karl Foerster\u2019, fennel and bistort, all late-summer stalwarts to see the family through the summer holidays.<\/p>\n
Read more about the garden below.<\/p>\n
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The view from the house down a gentle slope is framed by several island beds featuring shrubs and grasses. Here, black elder (Sambucus nigra<\/em> f. porphyrophylla<\/em> \u2018Eva\u2019) and Physocarpus opulifolius<\/em> \u2018Diabolo\u2019 are interspersed with grasses Molinia caerulea<\/em> subsp. arundinacea<\/em> \u2018Transparent\u2019 and Panicum virgatum<\/em> \u2018Shenandoah\u2019.<\/p>\n
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$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe outdoor kitchen arena and firepit<\/a> are surrounded with texture-rich clumps of Calamagrostis<\/em> x acutiflora<\/em> \u2018Karl Foerster\u2019, and Molinia caerulea<\/em> interspersed with evergreen Euphorbia<\/em> x pasteurii<\/em>.\n $\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>
\u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe formal garden features half a dozen pleached hornbeams<\/a>, with Hydrangea arboresens<\/em> \u2018Annabelle\u2019 behind and low beech hedging Fagus sylvatica<\/em> f. purpurea<\/em> in the foreground.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nA low border of orange and yellow Helenium<\/em> \u2018Waltraut\u2019 and Rudbeckia<\/em> fulgida<\/em> var. deamii<\/em> with Verbena<\/em> bonariensis<\/em><\/a> curves round behind the outdoor kitchen, with ancient oak trees behind.<\/p>\n
$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe top terrace features an avenue of birches to the left and twin herbaceous borders of Eutrochium dubium<\/em> \u2018Little Joe\u2019, Helenium<\/em> \u2018Waltraut\u2019 and Agastache<\/em><\/a> \u2018Blackadder\u2019, which frame the view from the house and offer routes down to the lower garden.<\/p>\n
$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe avenue of white-barked Betula<\/a> utilis<\/em> subsp. jacquemontii<\/em> \u2018Doorenbos\u2019 slopes gently down, showing the landformed slope from the upper level to the lower lawn.<\/p>\n
$\"""\"$ <\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> \u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\nThe pool terrace surrounded with late-summer flowering perennials: Sanguisorba<\/a> officinalis<\/em> \u2018Red Thunder\u2019, Bistorta amplexicaulis<\/em> \u2018Blackfield\u2019 and Foeniculum vulgare<\/em> \u2018Purpureum\u2019, by the side of the barn<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Jason Ingram<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\n
The view of the countryside beyond is interrupted by island beds full of shrubs, the colours of which pick up shades of dark purple, red and bronze taken from the shadows of the oak trees, using Magnolia Black Tulip<\/em> (= \u2018Jurmag1\u2019), Acer palmatum<\/em> \u2018Bloodgood\u2019, Cercis<\/em> canadensis<\/em> \u2018Forest Pansy\u2019 and Pittosporum tenuifolium<\/em> \u2018Golf Ball\u2019.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n
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