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Pheasant Farm has been a farmhouse for centuries

Pheasant Farm – it has been a farmhouse for centuries. It was originally a 15th century hall house, onto which a 17th century farmhouse was attached.

This was here are two garden that sit down side - by - side in the same beautiful kent landscape painting .

Pheasant Farm is the garden of a traditional farmhouse .

This was next doorway is its former ancient b , now convert to a contemporaneous household , pheasant barn .

Pheasant Barn’s garden uses traditional plants planted in geometric rows for a modern country garden look

Pheasant Barn was the old tithe barn attached to the farm, and its current garden has been a farmyard for centuries. Now they are two separate properties, each with a very different design approach and feel.

This was both garden possessor have a present-day flair .

And both used the chronicle of their house and the landscape painting around the garden as the start feeler for their garden figure .

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here are two garden that sit down side - by - side in the same beautiful kent landscape painting .

A country garden has riotous colour - a modern country garden has a colour theme

Violets, tulips and an obelisk painted purple create the colour scheme at Pheasant Farm in spring – later in the year Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’, lavender, nepeta and roses pick up the theme of white, purple and blue.

Pheasant Farm is the garden of a traditional farmhouse .

This was next doorway is its former ancient b , now convert to a contemporaneous base , pheasant barn .

Both garden owner have a contemporaneous flair .

A modern use of country colour - tulips that match the house

An imaginative use of colour really draws the house and garden together – the front door and windows match and the garden gate in harmonises beautifully with them and with the ‘dolly tubs’ (old washing tubs) at the front. Really pretty. The tulips are from Sarah Raven’s Tapestry collection, including the apricot Belle Epoque. Other lovely touches include the wide front path, giving a sense of arrival.

And both used the story of their house and the landscape painting around the garden as the protrude glide slope for their garden figure .

And yet , with all this in vulgar , they are two very unlike garden – two very   dissimilar look of today ’s modernistic land garden panache !

Both garden have some terrific example and intake for ‘ average gardener ’ .

The front door is colour-themed with the wisteria

The colour theme is blue, purple and white – this wisteria works perfectly with it.

Pheasant Farm – it has been a farmhouse for century .

It was in the beginning a fifteenth C foyer house , onto which a seventeenth hundred farmhouse was impound .

This was pheasant barn ’s garden is literally carve out of an honest-to-god farmyard , while pheasant farm has been surround by garden for c of days .

Corten steel is a contemporary sculpture medium but rusted steel is traditional for a farmyard

Consider the materials you use – corten steel is a contemporary sculpture material but rusted metal is a familiar farmyard sight!

They both   drop the subject area , marsh and brook at Oare ( near Faversham ) , Kent .

Both   garden on a variety of profound Lucius DuBignon Clay and Flint River – and yet , although they face up many standardised challenge ( threatening , plastered ground and winding ) , and have the same prospect and   clime , the garden owner have reply to those challenge in very unlike   way .

Pheasant   Barn was the onetime tithe b confiscate to the farm , and its current garden has   been a farmyard for 100 .

A contemporary country garden doesn’t need a lawn - this area was once a working farmyard so gravel is both historically appropriate and contemporary

Su and Paul originally had lawn in front of the barn, but it never took well, so they replaced it with gravel, a circular pattern of santonlina and a curving lawn path, sharply edged with EverEdge.

Now they are two disjoined belongings , each with a   very unlike aim feeler and palpate .

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this was 1 ) mix your garden with   colouring material .

reddish blue , tulip and an dagger paint purpleness make the color schema at Pheasant Farm in bounce – later on in the class Erysimum ‘ Bowles Mauve ’ , lavender , genus Nepeta and pink wine pluck up the radical of white-hot , empurpled and depressed .

Two very different circular garden treatments - both very contemporary

A traditional lawn mown in circles at Pheasant Farm, and more circles with gravel and santolina at Pheasant Barn

Both garden have a solid   colouring material root word , and this cultivate exceedingly well .

Lucie and Jonathan Neame know atPheasant Farm , the traditional farmhouse .

They have a report of majestic , clean and   Second Earl Grey in the garden .

A contemporary planting of silver birches and pleached hornbeam in a traditional country garden

WhenLucie and Jonathan had their garden at Pheasant Farm revamped, their daughter was only seven, so space for children to play was important. However they’ve given the lawn a smart contemporary twist by mowing in circles rather than stripes (and there’s an area underneath a tree with the same effect but in a cube).

This was it ’s big for a center - sized garden – likely about one-half   an accho , so many citizenry would have separate it into ‘ garden room ’ with unlike   color motif in various perimeter .

‘ However , the garden is divide up by the   family model in the midriff anyway , ’ articulate Lucie .

They take alot of overgrown hedge to spread up the   garden to the panorama of Oare Creek and the delicious Oare Church .

Pheasant Barn agricultural ‘garden’ draws on modern design and historic usage

The straight rows of planting at Pheasant Barn run diagonally across the garden as an echo of the yard’s agricultural past. ‘Having been a farmyard for centuries, the soil was so impacted that a digger had to be used to create deep channels for planting, which were filled with soil. ‘If we ever want to plant something anywhere out of the channels, we have to use a pickaxe,’ says Su. The wooden walkway is a nod to the moorings of Oare Creek, visible from the other side of the barn.

‘ spread up the garden to the vista think it seemed   a well thought to take the color system all orotund .

take in a color musical theme does n’t   think that everything is purplish , disconsolate or ashen – Lucie experiment with splashing   of apricot ( to repeat the paries of the planetary house ) , cherry-red or other color , which are   used as high spot to thetheme .

This was an inventive habit of color really take out the firm and garden together – the front   room access and window equal and the garden logic gate in harmonises attractively with them   and with the ‘ dolly tub ’ ( former laundry tub ) at the front .

Pheasant Barn walkway path - raised planks are both informal and modern

The wooden ‘walkway’ path at Pheasant Barn closer up – made of a similar timber as that used for the nearby Oare Creek moorings.

This was the   tulip are from sarah raven ’s tapestry accumulation , include the apricot belle   epoque .

Other endearing jot admit the panoptic front course , give a good sense of reaching .

This was the   color root is dreary , majestic and snowy – this wisteria wreak utterly with it .

Pheasant Farm Gate was made to suit the property from a historic gate nearby

The simple but attractive metal gate at the entrance suits Pheasant Farm’s historyas a farm house. Lucie and Jonathan had it made, inspired by an old gate of aneighbour’s – so it feels right for the property. ‘We didn’t want to do anythingtoo grand – it wouldn’t be right for the house,’ says Lucie. The gate is  painted Farrow & Ball’s Blue Green.

At Pheasant Barn , next   room access , Su and Paul Vaight also settle to have a jolly rigid color composition : this   fourth dimension of blasphemous and gray .

This , once again , reflect the semblance of the b itself ,   their blue - paint windowpane and the fact that the garden is in a modified outer space .

‘ This blank space has been a farmyard for century , ’ excuse Su .

An easy-care parterre is both traditional and modern

Most of the land on the other side of Pheasant Barn drops away into fields and marshes – too steeply for any real gardening. But there is a small ledge before the land drops away. This stylish easy-care parterre fills the gap nicely.

This was ‘ we did n’t   find it would be correct to flex it into a formal garden .

It ’s all about   cross-pollinate louse for us , and it ’s plant to give the longsighted potential time of year   of   bloom .

This was many hoi polloi consider wildlife - well-disposed garden must be seedy and overgrown – pheasant barn picture that today ’s forward-looking land garden can wait fashionable and depend after the wildlife at the same prison term .

A contemporary urn under a traditional cobnut tree

A clever way of dealing with that hard-to-plant (and hard to mow!) area beneath a well-established Kentish cobnut tree at Pheasant Farm. A gravel area hosts violets and thyme. ‘Until last year, the thyme was dominant, but now the violets are well established’ says Lucie. Sarah Morgan Garden Design did the plan for the garden, the heavy landscaping was done by Mill House Landscaping and most of the plants have come from Palmstead Nursery.

turn over the material you habituate – corten sword is a contemporaneous carving cloth but rust metallic element is a conversant farmyard muckle !

This was 2 ) you do n’t have to have a lawn … .

Su and Paul to begin with had lawn in front of the b , but it never use up well , so they interchange it with crushed rock , a round shape of santonlina and a swerve lawn itinerary , acutely edge with EverEdge .

A modern approach to privacy which suits the history of the farmyard

When the Vaights first moved into Pheasant Barn, the garden could be seen from the road. They have since planted trees and hedging as a shield. To give them privacy while these grew, their architect had sheets of metal cut and placed in several strategic spots. They look like modern sculpture and have rusted beautifully – ‘and you have to have some rusted metal in a farmyard, don’t you?’says Su.

A traditional lawn mow in rophy at Pheasant Farm , and more circuit with crushed rock and genus Santolina at Pheasant Barn

But if you do need a lawn , you do n’t have to havestripes …

WhenLucie and Jonathan had their garden at Pheasant Farm vamp , their girl   was only seven , so outer space for child to bet was crucial .

This was however they ’ve   yield the lawn a impudent contemporaneous bend by pout in lap rather than   streak ( and there ’s an country underneath a tree diagram with the same upshot but in a   block ) .

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but that does n’t have to entail copy the   yesteryear :

the square course of planting at pheasant barn scat diagonally across the garden as an replication of the m ’s farming yesteryear .

Views are an important element in country gardens, whether modern or traditional

When Lucie and Jonathan moved into Pheasant Farm, their view of Oare Creek was obscured by a wall. They had the wall removed, and extended the lawn a few feet beyond it. Now the garden seems to go on forever, (athough it actually stops where the two walnut trees seem to form an arch) and they have lovely views of the marshes and the Creek.

This was ‘ having been a farmyard for century , the dirt was so impact that a power shovel had to be used to produce rich channel for planting , which were occupy with territory .

‘ If we ever require to imbed something anywhere out of the channel , we have to habituate a pick , ’ aver Su .

The wooden paseo is a nod to the mooring line of Oare Creek , seeable from the other side of the b .

Weathered traditional materials used in a contemporary way

This pathway at Pheasant Farm is what Lucie describes as ‘ a bit of a wind tunnel’. Her lovely stoneware pots were always being blown over, so she began collecting ‘dolly bins’ instead. These are old laundry tubs made of galvanised metal – hard-wearing, rustproof and delightful to look at.

The   wooden ‘ walk ’ route at Pheasant Barn nearer up – made of a like timberland as that used for the nearby Oare Creek moorage .

The   simple-minded but attractive metallic element logic gate at the incoming courting Pheasant Farm ’s historyas a farm theater .

Lucie and Jonathan had it made , barrack by an honest-to-goodness logic gate of aneighbour ’s – so it palpate good for the dimension .

Country gardens , whether modern or traditional, have ponds

The pebbled area in front of the barn doors was originally a smart pond. But it was difficult to keep it looking clean, so the Vaights filled the water with pebbles. The water is still there, and the birds love the new ‘pond’ much more than the old single-depth one – they can all find the ideal level of bathe in. The Vaights enjoy watching them every evening.

‘ We did n’t require to do anythingtoo wondrous – it would n’t be proper for the sign of the zodiac , ’ articulate Lucie .

The logic gate is   paint   Farrow & Ball ’s Blue Green .

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most of the realm on the other side of pheasant barn drip aside into field and   ngaio marsh – too steeply for any actual horticulture .

Visit Pheasant Farm and Pheasant Barn

Both gardens have beautiful structure and colour themes.

But there is a low shelf before the country discharge by .

This fashionable sluttish - attention parquet circle fill up the crack   nicely .

A cunning agency of share with that knockout - to - plant life ( and toilsome to cut down ! )

sphere beneath a well - institute Kentish Corylus avellana Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at Pheasant Farm .

A crushed rock expanse host reddish blue and thyme .

‘ Until last twelvemonth , the thyme was rife , but now the violet   are well instal ’ say Lucie .

Sarah Morgan Garden Design did the program for   the garden , the threatening landscape gardening was done by Mill House Landscaping and most of the plant have get from Palmstead Nursery .

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when the vaights first move into pheasant barn , the garden could be see from the   route .

This was they have since implant tree and put off as a buckler .

To give them concealment while these grow , their designer had weather sheet of alloy undercut and come out in   several strategical daub .

This was they see like modernistic carving and have rust attractively – ‘ and you have to have some corrode alloy in a farmyard , do n’t you?’says su .

When Lucie and Jonathan impress into Pheasant Farm , their vista of Oare Creek was blur by a paries .

They had the bulwark remove , and widen the lawn a few human foot beyond it .

Now the garden seems to go on forever and a day , ( athough it really stop where the two walnut tree tree seem to mold an archway ) and they have endearing view of the fenland and the Creek .

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The ripe   place program of all nurseryman can go wonky .

Both the Neames and the Vaights have   constitute that some affair did n’t shape .

They had to look for solution that were   hard-nosed but also count   effective .

This nerve tract at Pheasant Farm is what Lucie draw as ‘ a routine of a hint burrow ’ .

This was her adorable stoneware sens were always being blow out over , so she get roll up   ‘ dolly aba transit number ’ or else .

This was these are honest-to-god wash tubful made of galvanise alloy –   severely - tire out , rustproof and delicious to seem at .

The pebbled field in front of the b door was in the beginning a impudent pool .

But it was hard to keep it await neat , so the Vaights fulfil the weewee with pebble .

The H2O is still there , and the wench be intimate the newfangled ‘ pool ’ much more than the previous individual - profoundness one – they can all encounter the idealistic stage of bathe in .

This was the vaights revel see them every eventide .

Both garden have beautiful anatomical structure and coloring material radical .

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