golf course

horsham, sussex

completed

2010

client

private 

size

1 hectare

photography

andy sturgeon

 

This rural garden overlooking a golf course had been ‘done’ by the developer.  This meant an alien design with a swimming pool that didn’t relate to the house or garden, a characterless deck running the length of the house and tons of compacted subsoil lurking beneath a very poor lawn.  The new design had to make sense of these features so that the house, garden and surroundings became interrelated and began to have a conversation with each other. 

From a horticultural perspective the soil had to be removed, replaced or improved.  Local stone was used to introduce vernacular elements to the garden so it became ‘of the place’, small multistem trees were introduced to the deck to make the area more intimate and create privacy from the golf course,  and deer and rabbit proof clipped box squares planted with lavender provide a transition zone between house and golf course

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