Hazelwood Barn – Reimagined by Bestall & Co | A show garden designed by Lee Bestall (a.k.a The Northern Designer)

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The Garden | Gold Award | People’s Choice Award | RHS Environmental Innovation Award

This garden aims to illustrate how a small space can be transformed into a beautiful garden that has a low carbon footprint & doesn’t cost the earth, by using some basic design principles, reclaimed materials and some locally made products.  Inspired by his passion to bring great design within the reach of a wider audience and at a reduced environmental cost, the designer wanted to give a second life to materials and create a garden that didn’t feel second best. A reclaimed planting medium supports a variety of plants that are designed to cope with our changing Yorkshire climate. Key features include a bespoke water feature that celebrates the everyday and a reclaimed bathtub housed in a recently refurbished bathing house.

Planting

Planting has been selected to be mainly drought tolerant and the planting medium has been created using builder’s ‘waste’. The colour scheme for the planting incorporates blues, purples and steely, silver foliage with cool whites, punctuated with limey greens.

Special thanks to Travis Perkins for supplying equipment for the garden, Paragon Oak for supplying timber for the building, and South Yorkshire Truss Solutions for supplying trusses for the building.