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A naturalistic cottage garden rooted in the wild Derbyshire uplands | House & Garden
19.07.2024 - 08:22 / houseandgarden.co.uk
Created by a local craftsman using Eyam stone pitchers, the cambered path winds between beds planted with pollinator friendly, cottage garden favourites, including a froth of tall white Artemisia lactiflora ‘Elfenbein’, crimson Knautia macedonica, silvery Stachys byzantina, white Silene fimbriata and lofty, pale yellow Cephalaria gigantea. These tolerate the exposed location and move beautifully in the wind.
When fashion consultant Laura Burlington left London for Derbyshire just before the first Covid lockdown in March 2020, she took a pot of planted tulips with her – a reminder that despite the painful uncertainties to come, the natural world would go on uninterrupted. The house she headed for, with her husband and three young children, was no ordinary place. Over 300 metres above sea level, Park Farm is on the edge of the Chatsworth Estate, to which her husband, William, Earl of Burlington, is the heir. Chatsworth’s pristine historic gardens, spread over 105 acres and dating back 500 years in parts, could not be more removed from the wild moorland surrounding the farmhouse. ‘I didn’t know the Derbyshire landscape well then,’ recalls Laura. But four years later, you can hear in her voice how much the remote stone farmhouse, high above the treeline, means to her.
In the gravel garden, once the site of farmyard outbuildings, remnants of weathered paving set off silver-leaved Artemisia schmidtiana ‘Nana’ and bright grass Sesleria autumnalis, with wilder elements of self-seeded white valerian and rosebay willowherb, mauve clary sage and yellow verbascum
Part of this deep attachment is centred around the understated garden she created here in 2021 with the help of the designer Emily Erlam. ‘I liked the spirit of her designs,’
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