This garden was part of a design for a new neo-classical lakeside villa on the site of an unprepossessing 1950’s house with a spectacular view over a lake towards the Austrian mountains. Essentially, the client was an Anglophile who loved English Regency buildings, but had found that local German architects didn’t seem to understand what she was looking for.
I designed the garden to have a traditional appearance with a formal parterre, kitchen garden, viewing platform, avenues and orchard, but it also had to incorporate a small football pitch, trampoline and table tennis for the children. Each of the contour lines on the model below represents half a metre, so considerable earth-moving was required. The client wanted an avenue of pleached limes with an orchard and a temple/summer house.
