Windswept, The Forest of Bowland

This is a garden which embraces its spectacular upland location, looking out over moorland near the Forest of Bowland. The property is a new built home, to be used by the clients and their children as a northern holiday home.

This garden, inspired and shaped by wind patterning, distils the wild beauty of the landscape into an intimate place where people can come together, to connect with nature and each other.

Key to this design was to create intimate, zoned spaces, which work maximise the views but at the same time offer shelter from the winds.

We created a dining terrace with outside kitchen, inbuilt seating and planting to shade the dining table and curved detail of planting beds with grasses running across the terrace.. Steps lead down to a lower terrace with inbuilt seating around a fire with more trees for shade, blossom and wind break. Abutting these areas are a heather garden with hot tub and a pétanque court. A shade garden with feature trees wrap around the side of the house, while heather and pioneer trees run behind the parking area.

Wind patterning is a design feature; shown in the raised wildflower areas in the meadow, arrangement of grasses across the terrace to the curving double hedges of hawthorn and blackthorn that offer wild breaks as well as blossom and berries.

Materials were chosen to withstand the elements and include solid gritstone steps, yorkstone copings, basalt setts and gravel.

We guided this scheme through planning. Build scheduled autumn 2024.