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About 13 Gravenhurst Road
Potter’s garden is an artist’s garden designed predominantly in the classic cottage garden style, with a mix of traditional and contemporary planting. The gravel garden closest to the cottage hosts a pond with hydrangea Annabelle borders down one side and fruit trees on the other. Attractively wild, with self set verbena bonariensis and bronze fennel, plus elegant pots of roses and unusual salvias, and fig. A gated entrance opens on to a long path leading to the secret garden.
This main garden features an array of outbuildings including artist’s studio, an open-sided garden room with log burner, and glasshouses. Contemporary borders welcome you on either side with plume poppy, cephalaria gigantea, echinacea, swathes of grasses with pops of dianthus carthusianorum, and heads of blue echinops.
In the middle sit the raised beds of the cutting garden which is planted with dahlias, annuals and flowers for drying, alongside vegetables and cherry trees, with a large glasshouse used for potting and propagation. A seating area in the middle and fire pit serve as an outdoor kitchen in which to cook the fresh produce from the garden.
On the left hand side, the newly planted romantic border is a more classical, muted palette of roses, delphiniums and perovskia. A few contemporary plants tie this to the rest of the garden in perfect harmony.
The lawn gives onto a small wooded copse leading down to a dry riverbed (unless there’s been a recent deluge!), with ferns and a trio of elegant silver birch.
Lucky visitors may also be able to catch a glimpse of Bella, our venerable chicken.
The garden has regular visitors from the natural world including deer, hedgehogs, dragon flies, an array of butterflies and moths, bats, woodpeckers, owls and the occasional partridge.
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