
Caroline Davy is an award-winning landscape and garden
designer with a growing reputation for creating beautiful
gardens across the country.
Caroline’s style is typified by an instinctive and intuitive
response
to each individual site. Her designs emphasise the strengths
of every location’s natural character so each garden
develops
a completely unique look and atmosphere.
Practicality is also
central to Caroline’s
work and
she creates relevant outdoor
spaces that are
perfectly
suited to the needs of their owners.
Click here to see how a country garden in Essex has been transformed
May has brought a series of beautiful days, pouring rain, a Chelsea Flower Show somewhat affected by the financial climate and the prospect of my own garden opening to the public!
Somehow we have been talked into opening our own garden as part of the village Open Gardens Day this year. It is being billed as a ‘modern take on the traditional cottage garden’. ‘Modern’ – I think - in the sense that we’ve used slightly non-traditional plant combinations and a very strong layout which is softened by the billowing, lush planting. Apart from some preening, last minute mulching and removing any creeping buttercup that has evaded the weeding regime so far, we’re nearly there and are now just praying for fine weather!
Work is due to begin on the building of our Lymington garden very soon. This is exciting and I am really looking forward to seeing this garden come together. We’re tackling two existing ponds in this garden and giving the whole scheme a serious face-lift. Photographs will be available of the newly finished garden as soon as possible.
I’m currently talking to many of the clients for whom we built gardens last year. It is so rewarding to hear that the planting is beginning to come together and look like the drawings that sold the schemes to them in the first instance! The leap of faith they took when they went ahead and commissioned the build and planting based on visuals and written descriptions is finally paying off and the dividends are being realised!