Quick sketches for Knole House

Hmmm, it's been a while since my last confesion......I mean update.  The images below are my initial sketches for ideas improvements to Knole House, The Walled Garden.  This is part of work of the ongoing CMP through 'Historic Garden Conservation' module.  Some ideas are to improve the existing management areas such as the Wilderness.  This area in particular already had an CMP in place after the great storm of 1987, when most of the Wilderness had to be re-planted.  However the present Sackvilles have become attached to the wildness of the plantation, yet if they were to leave it as it is, the trees will almost certainly strangle eachother over the next 5 years or so.  The area needs to be thinned and maintained properly.

Other ideas are to create an entertaining space where the Sackvilles regularly use, which both is inkeeping with the house, but forms a 21st century stamp of there own on the gardens.  My initial ideas are quite formal and I think some development is necessary, but I think the introduction of formal trees and a rill is warming up my creative juices.  I also want to introduce tree planting acroos where the herbaceaous borders are now.  The space inbetween rises steadily up to the wall gateway.  This I would like to terrace in the form of deep steps.  This will create a view point and direction through the garden where at the moment it is lacking.

As I define my ideas more (and improve my sketch communication!) I will add them to the blog