Forest trails

Garden in St. John's Wood

Passing the gallery

Leading headings: Marina Volkova

A photo: Adam Shepherd, Howard Sooley

Magazine: N6 (172) 2012

Landscape designer Adam Shepherd created a cozy white and purple garden in central London.

Once upon a time, the site of St. Johns Wood was a real forest. It occupied most of the county of Middlesex and due to such scales it was named Great. Now St. Johns Wood is one of the most prestigious residential areas of London. Love it here, for example, Paul McCartney. There are many historic buildings in this place. The garden of one of them was commissioned to equip landscape designer Adam Shepherd from the English bureau The Landscape Architect.

The owners have lived here for more than 20 years and, as they themselves admit, the garden located behind the house has been completely launched. Adam divided it into two zones: the lower one is organized according to the regular principle, the upper one is like a landscape garden, wild. At the bottom is wooden flooring, in the summer it serves as a terrace. On the steps you can climb to the upper garden. The zones are separated by a complex marble structure. In the upper garden there are all the necessary components: pergola, gazebo, benches. Geraniums and anemones of the most delicate shades - pale-violet, white-green, lilac are planted here Thanks to this color scheme, the garden makes a very romantic impression. But its main decoration is the Canadian cercis. Basically, this tree grows in North America, but it settled down in London. It blooms in spring and adds its own, light pink note to the color scheme of the garden.

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