WALLED GARDEN RETREAT
The Walled Garden Retreat will provide a productive and peaceful space for rest, meditation and a chance to spend time in nature around the new health food café and treatment rooms.The design was inspired by a frond of a fern growing on the site, and the flow of yoga is reflected throughout the garden in the curving lines of pathways cutting across the traditional formal vegetable garden layout
Vegetables, fruit and herb borders take the place of the old glass houses to the north of the garden. These lead to cut flower beds and beyond them simple swathes of productive flowering plants like flax lead to the wild flower garden. The yoga dome is set within a secluded roundel and looking out toward the valley view beyond. Materials are natural and reclaimed where possible. Planting is carefully planned for pollinators and biodiversity. A central water pool encourages dipping birds and skimming bats and piles of logs create habitat to link to the established woodland beyond.
The Walled Garden links to the wider historic estate with footpaths leading to nearby camping at Badgells Wood, to the village and to the Pilgrim’s Way on the green sand ridge above.
In collaboration with Tate Harmer Architects.
The Walled Garden Retreat will provide a productive and peaceful space for rest, meditation and a chance to spend time in nature around the new health food café and treatment rooms.The design was inspired by a frond of a fern growing on the site, and the flow of yoga is reflected throughout the garden in the curving lines of pathways cutting across the traditional formal vegetable garden layout
Vegetables, fruit and herb borders take the place of the old glass houses to the north of the garden. These lead to cut flower beds and beyond them simple swathes of productive flowering plants like flax lead to the wild flower garden. The yoga dome is set within a secluded roundel and looking out toward the valley view beyond. Materials are natural and reclaimed where possible. Planting is carefully planned for pollinators and biodiversity. A central water pool encourages dipping birds and skimming bats and piles of logs create habitat to link to the established woodland beyond.
The Walled Garden links to the wider historic estate with footpaths leading to nearby camping at Badgells Wood, to the village and to the Pilgrim’s Way on the green sand ridge above.
In collaboration with Tate Harmer Architects.