Mediterranean Garden - Beningbrough Hall

Garden Designer: Andy Sturgeon

Cost: Undisclosed

Completion: August 2024

Location: Yorkshire

The beautiful new Mediterranean Garden at the National Trust’s Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, designed by acclaimed garden designed Andy Sturgeon, is the latest phase in the Trust’s long-term plan to rejuvenate and reinvent the eight-acre garden.

This marks Blakedown’s second phase of works at Beningbrough Hall, following our collaboration with the National Trust on the creation of the Pergola Garden, one of the first major phases of the garden vision, in 2018.

Blakedown Landscapes has been instrumental in executing the hard landscaping works and planting of specimen trees and hedges, playing a crucial role in bringing this vision to life. The Blakedown team demonstrated exceptional resilience in successfully executing these works amidst one of the wettest winters on record

WORKS

Works included:

A series of dry stone walls that seamlessly emerge from the garden’s natural contours.
A rill, flowing into a newly constructed pond with stepping stones.
Installation of sandstone boulders were installed together with water bowls spaced to attract wildlife and create reflections throughout the garden.
Creation of winding footpaths, constructed from a variety of surfaces including Breedon self-binding gravel.
A complex system of drainage was installed to ensure the garden, which is close to the River Ouse, remains free draining ensuring the carefully selected plant species by Andy Sturgeon Design thrive.
Site grading works modified the contours of the garden and formed localised mounding for the planting beds. Topsoil was carefully stripped, stored and re-used, mixed with grit, to form the beds and improve drainage.
Planting of specimen trees and hedges

FURTHER INFORMATION:

This garden is designed to adapt to a changing climate with plant selections chosen for their resilience to hotter, drier summers and wetter winters.