Arabella Lennox-Boyd’s The Daily Telegraph Garden

With simplicity as her theme, Arabella’s design is a contrast of vertical and horizontal elements; of planting and water; of hard and soft. A stone-edged, rectangular pool of water fills the centre of the garden, and is softened by planting on two sides. A serpentine path of stone, crossed by ribbons of white waterlilies (Nymphaea alba), links
the front of the garden to the planting at the back, and leads the eye towards a bamboo thicket. The pool is punctuated by sculptural rocks, half-submerged in the pool, and four trees that frame the views and lend a sense
Pterocarya fraxinifolia, chosen for its association with water. Large green leaves (including Gunnera), grey leaves, vertical bamboo and iris, rounded shrubs and roses create a rhythm.