Take a garden tour of this Oliver Schurmann of Mount Venus Nursery-designed garden in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains.
A two-and-a-half-acre country garden in Wicklow, designed by the well-known nurseryman Oliver Schurmann of Mount Venus Nursery, it generously blurs boundaries to blend into its spectacular surrounding landscape., it has become a phrase much bandied about in the world of garden design.
In the distance is the lower of Glendalough’s two silvery, shimmering lakes, its clear, clean water fed by mountain streams. Also in sight, when the trees are bare later in the year, is Glendalough’s famous round tower, built by Irish monks over 1,000 years ago.Surrounded by such an extraordinary landscape, it’s no wonder that Adrian and Jennifer sought help in creating a garden that would honour its vast, raw-boned beauty.
It would have been easy for Adrian and Jennifer to quickly screen the large garden from public view, but that would have meant sacrificing its “spirit of place”, something that neither they norInstead they did the opposite, devising ingenious ways to “disappear” the boundaries between the garden and the mountainous landscape surrounding it, so that one merges seamlessly into the other.
A froth of fennel adds a sense of airiness to mixed planting in one of the garden terraces near the house So does the garden’s cast of thoughtfully chosen trees and shrubs, which includes many of the choice species for which the Schurrman’s Mount Venus Nursery has become so well known. Examples include witch hazel and even a giant redwood that Adrian, Jennifer and Oliver hope will one day, many years from now, echo Glendalough’s round tower in terms of its lofty dimensions.
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