There is something delightfully disorientating about strolling along the winding paths in Julie Alviti’s garden, and discovering that hedges and walls cleverly conceal unexpected gardens-within-a-garden. ‘The whole feel of the garden is not to see it all at once, but to go round a corner and discover unexpected, interesting features, or an inviting seating area,’ she explains.
‘Each “garden room” can have a different planting scheme, Julie continues. ‘That means I can grow a wide range of plants.’
To begin with the garden was more children’s playground than plantswoman’s paradise, but as Julie’s children grew up, she gradually whittled away at the lawn closest to the house, widening the borders to make space for hydrangeas, coneflowers, fleabane, agastache, astrantias, cosmos, verbascums, clematis and climbing roses, creating a lovely view from…
