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About 15 Waite Davies Road
Perhaps the most unusual feature of the garden is an elegant grapefruit tree, flourishing in a handsome terracotta pot imported from Tuscany. After years of patient care, it has grown to a size where it produces an abundant crop of large, golden fruit, harvested each year for freshly pressed breakfast juice. The variety, ‘Wheeney’, takes its name not from its stature but from Wheeney Creek on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, where it was first discovered.
Elsewhere, a compact yet characterful olive tree, also in Italianate terracotta, is underplanted with fragrant Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’. Clematis weave through the planting, among them ‘Perle d’Azur’, ‘Margaret Hunt’, Clematis × durandii, and ‘The President’.
The dramatic, velvety blooms of Iris ‘Dusky Challenger’ provide a spectacular highlight, their rich colour a perfect foil for the softer tones around them. Roses, too, play their part: the exquisite mid-pink ‘Olivia Rose Austin’ and the airy white ‘Kew Gardens’ bring both charm and contrast.
Now a decade old, the garden continues to mature alongside the house, which has recently been opened up and extended. New bi-fold doors create a seamless transition between indoors and out, the overall impression one of a modern space that remains, at heart, quintessentially English.
The garden belongs to actor Will Jennings, who, alongside his stage career, trained in horticulture and garden design at Capel Manor in Regent’s Park.
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