Bramblewood Cottage

About Bramblewood Cottage

Bramblewood Cottage is a one acre experimental hillside garden with extensive areas of layered naturalistic perennial planting for long-season interest, interspersed with large-scale log-pile sculptures for biodiversity and habitat. A wide range of different types of colourful designed annual and perennial meadows made from seed, from planting, and by naturalising perennials into existing lawns. Bluebells in old oak woodland, and intimate seating areas. There are many ecological and sustainable gardening features, including the front garden pool, rain gardens and bioswales to collect rainwater runoff from the house roof.
The garden is an experimental working environment for the owner, testing out different methods of planting and combinations that might be used more widely.
Nigel Dunnett is Professor of Planting Design and Urban Horticulture in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield, an RHS Ambassador and is one of the world’s leading voices on innovative approaches to planting design. He is a plantsman, designer and pioneer of the new ecological approach to planting gardens and public spaces. His work revolves around the integration of ecology and horticulture to achieve low-input, high-impact landscapes that are dynamic, diverse, and tuned to nature.
Nigel’s projects include: The Queen Elizabeth London Olympic Park The Barbican Centre, London and Sheffield Grey to Green. He is a gold medal-winner at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, winner of the Landscape Institute Award 2018 for Planting Design, Public Horticulture and Strategic Ecology, and the Landscape Institute Fellows Prize for Most Outstanding Project, both for The Barbican, London
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To the rear, a range of different designed annual and perennial meadows, large-scale log pile and habitat sculptures, bluebell woodland, vegetable garden, naturalistic planting.