The English Garden Spring Issue is out today and we are delighted to have the garden at Brixton Road featured.  There are gorgeous colour photo's by Allan Pollok Morris who has captured the spirit of the garden perfectly, especially the setting against the clean modern lines of the glazed extension.  Whilst the house is late Georgian, there is nothing traditional about the garden .  Designed to create a setting from the house, the garden has 2 distinct levels: the private, hidden lower level with tree fern & pond is a sun-trap, viewed from the bedroom; and the upper level is for eating, gardening and entertaining accessed from the kitchen  and visible from the plate-glass dining room.

Raised beds are crisply detailed in mild steel and sculptural plant supports are also metal - but are recycled re-bars, used for the delicacy of form and deep rust colour which also guides the planting palette. Flowers and fruit dominate in the rear garden planting and include espaliered apricots, figs, raspberries, eremurus and abutilon.  Vegetables have moved to the front of the house.

Raised beds are also featured in the front garden but are less of a contrast to the house - here they are timber, but painted to perfectly match the constantly passing red London Buses.

The garden is open for the NGS Yellow Book in July.

http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=20354

Evening Opening £3.50, chd free, wine, Fri 4 July (5.30-9.30); Sat 5 July (2-6.30)