Country garden
Walled garden
A quiet garden held by old walls, with a long season of grasses and perennials.
Location
Ringmer
Area
640 m²
Planted
2019
Photographed
September 2026
Design & planting
Tilth studio
The brief
More time outside, a clear route through the garden and planting that changes across the whole year.
What we did
The old brick walls were the best thing on site, so we let them hold the garden. A gravel court replaced tired lawn, and a single bench now sits where the evening light lands.
Repeated groups of grasses bring rhythm; burnet and euphorbia thread through them. We return each spring to thin, divide and adjust.
A place to pause
The path through
Old wall, new life
A few of the
living ingredients.
Selected planting
Hakonechloa macra · 21
Sanguisorba officinalis · 15
Euphorbia characias · 7
Molinia caerulea ‘Transparent’ · 12
Amelanchier lamarckii · 2
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