with Peter Seabrook at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
The geometry of the Elizabethan knot garden, with its patterns of paths and box-hedges in coloured gravel, was designed to give a year-round visual effect, but in this case there was also another reason. The less formal design of Chapman's Garden makes use of the colour of flowers and shrubs as a background to the water garden. Peter talks to PHILIP SWINDELLS about water plants and I BOB HOPKINS about bedding plants.
Produced by PHILIP HICKS BBC Birmingham