Concluding her series on lawn designers, Clare Foster visits Isabel and Julian Bannerman inside thegrounds of Trematon citadel, wherein they have created a lush Cornish garden filled with colour and evocative scents
If there was a matchmaking service to help garden designers find their ideal garden, Isabel and Julian Bannerman could absolutely have been paired with Trematon, a storybook motte-and-bailey fortressoverlooking Plymouth Sound. recognized for his or her theatrical, flower-crammed gardens, the Bannermans construct mock ruins and architectural follies to set off lavish planting schemes – but at Trematon, the level turned into already set, with geared up-made ruins and a view as top as an aerialimage providing the putting for an top notch new garden.

The gatehouse of the fourteenth-century castle is now engulfed through banks of wildflowers, with a view of the Tamar Estuary at Devonport down underneath.

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