Music on the Moors designed by Christina Williams

“The garden is inspired by the Two Moors Festival which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year,” explains Christina. "The garden attempts the near impossible: bringing to a courtyard garden the landscape and open moorland atmosphere of Dartmoor and Exmoor, the misty interior of the South West and the festival's rural church concert venues.”

Through Gothic willow arches you can see moorland in the distance, with a windswept hawthorn among Molinia moor grasses. Within the design an audience, entranced by the sound of flowing music, is represented by a rocky stream. It trickles over a Dartmoor granite wall into an amphitheatre-shaped pool surrounded by Exmoor cobbles.

The planting reflects the style of a West Country garden, with green the predominant colour. Within it hostas and ferns are contrasted with vibrant flashes of orange euphorbia, cream trollius and yellow alchemilla.