20 Wicket Road

Q: Are there plants available for sale?

Yes, there are various plants offerred for sale at 20 Wicket Road , please enquire with the owners for more details.

Built around a modern terrace, this small suburban garden (just 18 x 13 metres) sits on an awkward shaped plot, over a bed of clay. Set down from its neighbours, it developed a habit of flooding. But you'd never know. 'Borrow, hint, reveal, distract, attract, conceal' – the design uses every trick in the gardening handbook to create a truly memorable space.

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Carron Bowen (& Peter Hellawell)

About 20 Wicket Road

Most suburban gardeners have to work with a few inherited issues but here there were challenges at every turn – everything from a plethora of 1950’s concrete structures (some of them hidden underground) to a forest of mare’s tail.

A short exhibition reveals the development of the garden – breaking down the ‘mystery’ of the design process, working with what is while following the ‘right plant, right place’ mantra. Highly structured, the garden is surprisingly low maintenance; its three-year process of adaptation and major re-thinks creating a layered look with a seemingly readable history.

But all is not as it appears – these dry beds and screes within their lush surroundings, conceal a tenancy to flood – a veritable horticultural trompe-l’œil.

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20 Wicket Road,
Bournemouth,
Dorset,
BH10 5LT

Directions to 20 Wicket Road
From Kinson Green (The Hub/Library): follow Wimborne Rd (A341) towards Northbourne. Turn R after shops into Kitscroft Rd, R again into Bramley Rd; Wicket Rd is second L. No 20 is on the L.