Designed by Anne Harrap, Natural Surroundings’ founder and co-owner, and built with help of volunteers, this relatively small show garden will highlight the joint themes of our gardens at Natural Surroundings: demonstrating that gardens can be both beautiful and filled with wildlife, and showcasing the beauty and fascination of plants. In our garden at RHS Sandringham an area of informal, naturalistic planting, including native wildflowers such as Purple Loosestrife, Hemp Agrimony and Wild Marjoram, mirrors the flower-filled meadows alongside the River Glaven at Natural Surroundings, and surrounds a circular courtyard of troughs and a micro pond (in an old tin bath) planted with some of designer Anne’s ‘specials’. With a wide variety of flowers in a small space, the garden reflects one of our key messages - more plants, and a greater variety of plants, attracts more wildlife.
