Crossburn

A stylish one-acre garden for late season colour created on former sheep pasture by husband and wife team, Annika Sandell (landscape architect) and Robert Johnston (architect) on the north-western outskirts of Glasgow.

Season:
Autumn

Credits:
GAP Photos/Andrea Jones/Owners: Robert Johnston and Annika Sandell/Design: Annika Sandell

Feature No: 4654

Qty of Images: 57

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Synopsis
The Garden surrounds a renovated old estate farm steading and doo’cot’ (dovecote) dated 1647, on three sides, west, east and north. Defining features include; a huge 10m perfectly circular pond, multiple evergreen and deciduous hedges that help to subdivide space, control views, and give backdrops and shelter, a small woodland of ancient oak trees, named trees and shrubs for autumn colour, sloping borders of herbaceous perennials, Annika and Robert performing a number of gardening tasks in their own textbook manner such as laying new hedge, creating leaf mould compost, dividing herbaceous perennials, increasing borders by removing turf.