Norham

This grand Oxford house had absolutely nothing remaining in the front garden after the builders had left, apart from the two big trees.

To begin, we planted a pair of white magnolia trees either side of the entrance steps, to make a stairway to heaven, with their lovely apple green leaves and star like flowers. Then we found some multi-stemmed crab apples to form an avenue along the drive which we edged with lavender. We filled the new borders with mounds of evergreen and ever-silver shrubs, with cyclamen, tulips, daffodils and iris for an explosion of colour and energy every spring!