Atlantic weather, Celtic rock close to the surface, and an unusually mild microclimate. The garden is to hold one of the most significant Cornus collections in the British Isles.
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The commission called for a landscape framework that could carry the horticultural rigour a BGCI-accredited institution requires, and still read as part of the island. The botanic garden is reimagined: moving away from a stamp-collection approach to one of growing plants in natural plant communities. Cornus from around the world are shown alongside the companions they would grow with in the wild, creating novel ecosystems and a journey through striking seasonal displays in a dramatic landscape.
Seasonal stream beds tap into the natural hydrology of the land and carry water through the site, collecting in a large central rock pool, which creates the range of microclimates and moisture gradients the collection needs. Fieldstone boulders gathered from the surrounding land anchor the beds and stitch the garden into the geology beneath. A collaboration with ecologists, botanists and the in-house landscape team, to make a landscape that will still be here in five hundred years.
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