A Victorian Walled Garden in Mapperley Park

A garden design for a Victorian home in Mapperley Park, Nottingham, balancing formal structure close to the house with a softer, more naturalistic landscape beyond. The design responds to the period architecture and the established character of one of the city's most distinctive residential conservation areas.

The garden unfolds across two related but distinct registers. Close to the house, productive raised beds, brick paving, and pleached fruit trees form a semi-walled garden with strong ties to the period architecture. Beyond it, the main garden opens out into a more relaxed space shaped by curved gravel paths, layered perennial planting, a wildlife pond, and informal seating set into the wider landscape.

A restrained palette of natural materials allows the planting to take centre stage, threading a consistent visual language through both halves of the garden. The planting is rooted in its setting and considered in its response to the architecture, holding the garden together as a single composition.

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