The Bath Garden

The Bath Garden is a blousie, natural garden with just enough wildness to it. It contrasts formality and informality throughout. The tightly clipped holly hedge runs alongside the garden, with Topiarised Pyrus salicifolia, a cloud pruned Yew Tree is a focal point, it is clipped every Autumn, and maintained to remain at such a height, so as not to throw off the balance of this smaller urban garden. The beds are full of cottage garden planting, with colour and scent being key. The garden has a winding path, alongside a woodland, shade loving bed, into a cottage garden style of planting, full of pinks, whites and lilacs. This is in the form of Roses, Phlox, Campanula, Echinacea, Salvia and Dahlias. To simply name a few.

The garden then takes you to a patio area with pots of various shapes and sizes, exhibiting container planting at its finest. Tulips in Spring, to Summer planting, transforms this paved area, into a seasonal haven for wildlife.

The Summer house looks across a bed of lavender and Salvia, down the steps to the lowered lawn area, which sinks down giving ultimate privacy. The wall bed is full of climbing Roses, Clematis and Sweet peas. This area boasts late summer colour, with plants such as Salvia, Rudbekia, Helenium and Asters stealing the show.

The garden is home to nesting wrens, and blackbirds. And in the summer hummingbird hawkmoths. It isn’t a pristine garden only to be looked at, it is enjoyed by children and dogs all through the year. With metal Rose arches for ramblers, for children to run under. The garden feels like a country secret garden, not in the centre of bath at all, as it infect is. Autumn will see the last jewel tones, the Acer tree with turn magnificent scarlet and then gold, the forest pansy tree will be a brilliant purple, and the sorbs berries, pink jewels for the birds to feast on.