Garden design in Beverley and East Yorkshire
Haddon Studio: Beverley garden and landscape design
We are a design studio of award-winning garden and landscape designers working in Beverley, Driffield and East Yorkshire - creating biodiverse garden design in Yorkshire, and the north of England, as well as across the UK and Internationally.
We will inspire you to reconnect with your garden, creating the perfect garden outdoor space for you; whether that is somewhere to relax, or to entertain, or to simply be a contemplative space within the landscape.
We will use our design experience, our expertise, and our creative flair to to ensure that we can make a real difference in the development of your Beverley garden (and maintaining and expanding its biodiversity).
We are landscape and garden design experts in:
assessing your garden’s opportunities and limitations
visualising your garden’s potential in 3D
turning possibilities into 2D plans and plans into reality
designing with consideration for the development of plants over time, changing and growing through the seasons and years
We will work alongside you all the way from the initial soil survey through to the various stages of the design and build of your new garden; ensuring that the design meets your requirements and that the completed garden does too.
We create contemporary gardens, where people and wildlife co-exist
Your Beverley Garden Designers
Matthew, Creative Director at Haddon Studio, lives in Yorkshire and has many years of experience when it comes to what plants grow well in an East Yorkshire garden. An extensive horticultural and plant knowledge is combined with Haddon Studio’s technical and creative flair in the Masterplanning and technical detailing required to create your dream garden. Matthew is also one of only around 200 garden designers in the UK to be a Registered Member of the Society of Garden Designers (having passed their extensive accreditation process) and Haddon Studio is a Society of Garden Designers Registered Design Practice.
Our local knowledge and experience is second to none and so we can help you to create an amazing garden in East Yorkshire - whether in Beverley, Driffield, Pocklington, Bridlington, Hull East, and everywhere in between.
Examples of our Beverley gardens include:
The gardens of the East Riding - from Beverley to Driffield and beyond
The gardens of East Yorkshire (for example Beverley, Driffield, Hull East and their surrounding villages) are some of the most beautiful in the country. Our years of experience creating gardens in these areas means that we have a much better understanding of what our clients both want and need - whether they wish for contemporary garden styles or more traditional garden styles.
There are some amazing public gardens (for example those at Burton Agnes Hall, Sewerby Hall, Burnby Hall or Wassand Hall) but it is the private residential gardens, from urban courtyards, sub-urban new build gardens, and the larger country gardens, from the Yorkshire Wolds to the coast, which are the jewels in East Yorkshire’s crown.
Unique conditions experienced in East Yorkshire gardens
Benefiting from proximity to the coast there is definitely a slightly warmer climate when compared with the interior of the county. However proximity to the coast also means that areas can be exposed to cold winter winds. These factors must be taken into account when planting East Yorkshire gardens.
Unlike gardens further west, when undertaking garden design in York or garden design in Harrogate for example, East Yorkshire is also predominantly sitting on an alkaline soil - due to the chalky bedrock. It is crucial to understand this to get your plant choices right. In a garden context there are a number of opportunities offered with plants that prefer alkaline soil conditions (and can’t be planted in acidic soils). These include well known plant genus such as Lilac, Hebes, Ceanothus, and Campanula.
The soil types in the East Riding are in the main similar to those in the rest of Yorkshire - tending towards being made up of loam (which is good for growing) and with many areas having a clay subsoil (which is also great for providing nutrients to grow a wide range of plants). Additionally soils across the Wolds can be predominantly shallow and lime-rich (over chalk or limestone bedrock) and those soils next to the River Humber tend towards having high groundwater creating more damp conditions.
Selecting hardy perennials, shrubs, and trees for your East Yorkshire garden
East Yorkshire is classed (in terms of plant hardiness) as being an H5 area (which is based on the RHS’s Hardiness Ratings for plants - or somewhere around an 8a area using the older USDA rating). This may sound complicated if you’re not a professional garden designer but understanding the hardiness of the plants you choose will allow you to select plants that should survive the winter in your garden.
For your Beverley garden you should therefore select hardy plants (trees, shrubs, and perennials) that will survive winter temperatures down to -15 degrees centigrade. If you are using Hardiness Ratings to select plants you should choose plants with an H5 rating or above (i.e. H6 or H7 plants)…H4 plants may survive a milder winter in your garden but plants with a rating of H3 or less will need a greenhouse to survive.
Also because Beverley, Driffield and much of Easy Yorkshire has an alkaline soil Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and Camelias may look amazing but unless grown in a pot they will fail to thrive when planted in much of the county. That is why we always undertake to check soil pH when we start working at a new site. It is a sad truth that many clients believe they are not green-fingered when in fact they’ve simply tried to grow the wrong plant in the wrong place.
