Spa Garden
We were delighted when Matthew Wilson agreed to design our small but creative English garden for hotel and spa guests to enjoy. Matthew, formerly the curator at nearby RHS Harlow Carr gardens in Harrogate and now promoted to Head of Gardens Creative Development for the RHS, has created a great little garden escape for Verbena Spa guests. From pleached lime trees, beautiful English planting, small comfortable seating areas and unusual containers, the theme is very much a natural English garden for today.There’s also a fire pit for those cooler days when sitting around an outdoor fire toasting marshmallows, with a warming cup of hot chocolate seem the perfect way to unwind and chill out.
Matthew’s challenge was to create an oasis of tranquillity with a degree of privacy for spa guests which had to be largely container based rather than planted into soil. On top of that there was a requirement to provide a good deal of interest in winter as well as summer and cope with strong micro climate imposed by a south facing courtyard.
Come and see what you think…..
