Norwood House

About Norwood House

The gardens of Norwood House combine the controlled chaos of nature with a little formality. The planting is elegant and modern, with box topiary providing formal structure, interspersed with soft planting of verbena, grasses, alchemilla mollis and crocosmia. The East lawn is now filled with a wildflower meadow framed by borders offering subtle floral colour.
The borders also include many varieties of geranium and other perennials and shrubs, there is also a large rockery full of alpines.

In front of the house is a large wild flower meadow and a lake, which offers the most spectacular view, there could be nothing better on a summers evening sitting on the terrace with a glass of wine and admiring it. In addition, there is a woodland area which alongside the wild flower meadow featuring wild orchids provides an additional area to walk around and enjoy just being in the great outdoors.

The owners Jonathan & Rosie Lewis fell in love with Norwood House many years ago, it was a wonderful private house set within its own land that had been neglected over the years and was in need of renovation. They started the work on the house and surrounding grounds in 2011, it was a complete landscaping adventure which required a certain amount of vision to achieve what we can see today, a wonderful modern, elegant and landscaped garden.

The gardens surround the house on three sides; to the west is a small enclosed garden with lawn, vegetables, herbs, potted hostas and a large perennial border; to the south are lawns linking the west garden, with steps leading down to a large rockery with many alpines, long borders with sloping paths, box balls and hedges, lavender, lots of different hardy perennials and roses, plus a 50m bank walk with a laurel carpet wave; to the east is a large lawn surrounded by curving borders, several varieties of grasses, roses, geraniums, sedum and banks of lavender.

The borders also inc many varieties of geranium and other perennials and shrubs. In front of the house is a large wildflower meadow and a lake, which offers the most spectacular view.