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Oct 15, 2020 · A view back towards the Arts and Crafts house over the White Garden, with tulips, hellebores and blossoming Pyrus salicifolia. Originally designed by Edwin Lutyens, the pool and fountain have been meticulously restored, along with paths, walls and steps. The formal gardens cover approximately 11 acres, now ably managed by head gardener Tim ...
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Folly Farm was originally a 17th century cottage transformed between 1906 and 1912 into an iconic Arts and Crafts era home and landscape by the additions of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. It is widely deemed to be the pair’s most fully-fledged creation. The garden was divided into a series of inward-looking ‘rooms’...
As part of an extensive restoration of house and gardens, we were asked to rethink the gardens and surrounding landscape, and develop a site-wide masterplan that would bring the outdoor environment into the 21st century with a commitment to design excellence, horticultural experimentation, increased biodiversity and fine craftsmanship.
Within the framework of the hedged gardens, we introduced a distinctive contemporary palette of new plantings to each area that reference Jekyll’s naturalistic aesthetic and interest in colour theory, but feature a range of plants unavailable 100 years ago. A new wind garden of ornamental grasses connects the historic gardens to the surrounding lan...
The Garden Museum . dan pearson studio The Nursery, The Chandlery 50 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7QY . connect +44 (0) 20 7928 3800 mail@danpearsonstudio.com ...
Masterplan and garden design for an historic Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll property in East Sussex
Sep 30, 2021 · In the first of a four-part seasonal series, Dan Pearson describes how he and his partner Huw Morgan have nurtured the land on their Somerset smallholding to enrich biodiversity, creating wildflower meadows alongside a garden that deliberately echoes this wild, beautiful place. By Dan Pearson. 30 September 2021.
Jul 7, 2017 · Imagine the effort required to restore a 1,500-acre property on which an entire village once stood. The undertaking required the best ideas of both a master architect (Gae Aulenti, who also oversaw the transformation of a Paris train station into the Musée d’Orsay) and a master garden designer: Dan Pearson.
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Mar 12, 2020 · For a decade, the master gardener Dan Pearson has been creating a landscape that’s a testament to both his singular eye and Britain’s natural beauty. Roses in the cutting garden of Dan...
