I felt that it was important to ensure that the landscape setting reflects the calibre of the hotel brand – the high quality of its architecture and interior design – and its beautiful, atmospheric lakeside setting with its myriad green and orange hues. The landscape needed to be inviting, intimate in places, with wider social spaces, designed to flow one into the other. These were to be tied together with a planting style developed especially to suit the hotel and inspired by its setting. A consistent approach to the landscape design sitewide, with repeating elements linking areas together, was something I was keen to achieve. I made sure I considered the relationship between the buildings, landscape and Ullswater throughout the design process.

Plant species have been chosen to provide year-round visual delight, and privacy in places, and to enhance the site as a biodiverse haven for wildlife. Low, wide clipped hedges provide structure to the loose, billowy drifts of planting, including ornamental grasses, interspersed with flowering bulbs and planted with ornamental trees. Views out to the lake are enhanced wherever possible.

The surrounding meadows are being managed to encourage native wildflower species to establish and successional native tree planting ensures that consideration is given to the future. The gardens, a newly planted orchard, and the immaculate vegetable garden are being beautifully looked after by the head gardener, James Cox.

This is an ongoing landscape project, and it is a joy being involved in the evolution of the Another Place landscape.

Link to blog: https://another.place/blog/landscaping-outside/