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#PURPLE FLOWER ARCH SERIES#

Mrs Collins added clever, serpentine hedges of clipped beech and yew to screen gently the tennis court, break up the straight lines and create a series of welcoming, intimate spaces. Purple roses, ivory carnation and geraniums, lavender, multiple greenery and baby’s breath, perfect for bride & groom’s table during reception or arch decor Approximately 28 in long. Nowadays, they are all terrible foodies, but when they were young all they would eat were frozen peas!’ ‘I wanted a tennis court and a swimming pool to entice the children to the new house, but I didn’t want a kitchen garden. The flowers are frequently used in floral arrangements, however this flower is also lovely when dried. I love green I wouldn’t mind if there was nothing else.’ Her brief for the key elements of the walled garden was even clearer. Verbena is a beautiful plant that produces small purple blooms all summer long. The new owner of Everdon Hall had a good idea of the style she had in mind: ‘I wanted the garden to be comfortable and soft, almost Italian. The gardens at Everdon Hall, Northamptonshire. Malus hupehensis in the Walled Garden emerge from a low circle of clipped box and a mound of Hebe rakaiensis. Pair climbing roses with clematis and jasmine for a cottage-garden feel. The climbing rose comes in colors ranging from yellow to deep red with names such as Don Juan, Zephirine Drouhin Rose, Joseph’s Coat and Purity. ‘This is really why we fell in love with this place - everywhere you look, there are views to rolling hills,’ says Mrs Coaker. As opposed to a bush type of rose, climbing roses not only use their thorns as protection, but also to attach and climb up things. Mrs Collins has returned at regular intervals over the years to develop other parts of the 4½-acre garden that gently encircles the house with views onto glorious parkland. The Coakers asked garden designer Angel Collins to help them, starting with the walled garden, which had the advantage of being far enough away from the house not to clash with building works. When Charles and Caroline Coaker took on the ‘almost derelict’ house 25 years ago, renovations were delayed by planning issues, so they decided to start on the garden before they moved in and to enjoy the opportunity offered by an almost blank canvas: a few mature trees and an abandoned walled garden. The kitchen window of Everdon Hall looks out over a spreading magnolia tree that marks the visitor’s arrival to the house.

Non Morris takes a look at this beautifully judged garden photographs by Val Corbett for Country Life. The gardens at Everdon Hall, Northamptonshire - the home of Charles and Caroline Coaker -show off a clean, green structure balanced by romantic billowy planting.

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