Research material, including photographs of the garden from in 1890s, helped guided the project to reistate one of these spaces and marks the start of a longer-term ambition to bring back lost design elements and recapture the feel of William Morris’s original garden.
Design and planting
The new garden seeks inspiration from iconic Morris & Co designs like Trellis, Daisy and Fruit which Morris produced looking out over the garden more than 150 years ago. It is enclosed with traditional hazel and hawthorn and complemented by traditional cottage plants like Shasta daisies, columbines, honeysuckle, irises, peonies, jasmine and mock orange.