The Traveller's Garden – with Bradstone
This garden has been inspired by Walter de la Mare’s poem The Listeners. Elements of the poem have been interpreted in an abstract way to create the mood and atmosphere of the garden, which has a ghostly feel and is somewhat menacing in places. A single path forms a continuous inescapable loop, while contrasts between light and dark in the planting contribute to the design’s disquieting feel.
Amanda Patton won the Society of Garden Designers/Association of Professional Landscapers competition with this design for Bradstone, which highlights how the quality of our exterior spaces has a direct influence on our mood and wellbeing. By creating a garden this is in places deliberately uncomfortable, Amanda hopes to draw our attention to how the state of even the humblest backyard can have a positive or detrimental effect on our mental health.
As a showcase for the Society of Garden Designers and the Association of Professional Landscapers, the garden demonstrates how a professionally designed and built garden can enhance your life.