Poplar Barn, Hassocks, East Sussex
There is a type of garden that – over and above everything else it might give its users – serves as a place of contemplation, a place to think, somewhere to retreat into, meditate on, and return somehow renewed.
Owing to its clay soil, creating such a garden for the owners of Poplar Barn wasn’t easy. However, in raising the beds using purpose-built containers and in emphasising the importance of a design that plays as much to the need to pause as it does move, we managed to answer a brief that required we create a calm and secluded space, one that converses beautifully with both house and meditation room, and at the same time relates to and merges with the surrounding landscape.
A garden built from the ground up and embodying the personalities of owners and house, Poplar Barn is everything it set out to be: a place to meditate on this marvellous life of ours.
"I am truly grateful to Ben for creating me yet another wonderful garden in our new home. Ben is a very talented, creative and knowledgeable person, who is able to create not only the beautiful aesthetics of the garden but the 'feel' of it as well.
It is rare to find someone you can trust to create your vision.
Thank you Ben."
Teri Spain