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    Tom Stuart-Smith’s new garden at Middleton Lodge Hotel Richmond, Yorkshire


    August 2nd, 2018 - Wildlife gardening

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    Tom Stuart Smith garden design

    A glistening path in the rain

    On the website for Middleton Lodge you can see lots of professional photos of this new beautiful garden.

    July flower border

    White, mauve, purple, pink, magenta and green

    I visited two weeks ago just to see the garden and here are my photos, some in sunshine and then mostly in the rain.  It’s breathtakingly beautiful.

    Wedding venue

    The Fig House in the distance, used for weddings and events

    It’s a 2 acre walled garden newly restored and newly planted for instant impact.

    Herbaceous border plants

    Herbaceous planting repeated throughout

    The gardener there called it 2 acres of produce, seasonal blooms and wildlife.  The food grown there is used in the hotel restaurant and the garden is used for weddings and events.

    Grass path

    Abundant planting falling down in the rain

    There’s a large area of meadow, buzzing with wildlife.

    Walled kitchen garden

    A meadow for wildlife to help the kitchen garden

    The colours were mainly green with mauve, blue, purple, pink and white.

    The meadow and me.

    There are lots of paths and paved areas for walking and standing as well as grass paths in the meadow.  Trees and paths give geometry and structure and the planting was loose and abundant.

    Trees and paths

    Trees and strict geometry give structure

    Do visit if you’re up in the Dales.  The garden belongs to the hotel so you’d need to be eating or staying there.  We just had lunch and so could wander round the garden.

    So what could I take away that was relevant to our london cottage garden, tiny by comparison?

    Pick a limited number of plants and plant lots of them, repeated around the garden; not one of this and one of that.

    Let the paving area be clear and defined – it shows off the fuzzy planted areas if there is contrast.

    Oh, and get maestro Tom Stuart-Smith round to sort out your garden!

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    11 comments on "Tom Stuart-Smith’s new garden at Middleton Lodge Hotel Richmond, Yorkshire"

    1. Beverlt says:
      2nd August 2018 at 3:16 pm

      Beautiful, but what happens in the off season? Surely they don’t dig it up and next season.start anew the

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        3rd August 2018 at 6:29 am

        Good point. I had a long chat with the gardeners and this really is a proper garden. It has so much structure, trees, grasses, shrubs, etc that it will look just as lovely in all seasons. They said they had 300 events in one year there so it must look good all year I imagine. Thankyou for your comment.

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    2. Gill says:
      2nd August 2018 at 4:09 pm

      Lovely!

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        6th August 2018 at 9:08 am

        Thanks Gill, see you all on Thursday.

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    3. Jane says:
      2nd August 2018 at 9:44 pm

      I think this garden is just lovely, those blue drifts of perovskia are standout. I like your idea about repetition of plants. It seems to create lots more impact.

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        3rd August 2018 at 6:31 am

        Adam Frost gave a talk and said repetition is so important in a garden of any size – they all seem to make the same point of few plant types and repeat, repeat repeat. Thanks for your comment.

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    4. Cindy Coghill says:
      3rd August 2018 at 12:26 am

      Looks like a lovely place to lunch and walk the gorgeous gardens.

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        3rd August 2018 at 6:31 am

        Yes we were lucky to come upon it when we were up there for a few days. Thanks for your comment.

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      2. Julie Quinn says:
        4th August 2018 at 10:42 am

        Yes it was. And so full of buzzing wildlife.

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    5. Anne says:
      5th August 2018 at 10:06 pm

      Gorgeous pictures – v inspiring for a reluctant gardener. (!)

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        6th August 2018 at 8:59 am

        Hello! Thanks for reading it – we did have a fab time and me being keen I stood in the pouring rain with brolly in one hand and phone taking video in the other. Xx

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