Everything is made of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden, in all places.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The secret garden
A ready-made planting design for the space beyond your pergola. An illustrated digital guide for a fixed 8 × 10 metre garden in Puglia.
Turn the space beyond your pergola into a garden waiting to be discovered. Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, this design brings soft flowers, fragrance and a winding gravel path to a quiet place to sit, with views into your wider land.
The Secret Garden
€250
A glimpse inside your kit
What you receive
An illustrated seventeen-page PDF with a botanical cover, two garden renders and one garden sketch.
A numbered overview and a detailed A3 planting plan for the fixed 8 × 10 metre layout.
A shopping list for 74 plants in seven types, with real plant photographs, names, quantities and buying sizes.
Simple planting steps, spacing guidance and material suggestions.
A seasonal care calendar, nursery buying notes and the garden story.
Is this garden right for your space?
You will need an open, broadly level 8 × 10 metre area beyond an existing pergola or patio, with sunny planting areas, freely draining soil and fresh irrigation water. Choose a sheltered setting away from strong salt spray.
The pergola sits outside the measured area and must be suitable for climbing plants. Existing trees can frame the view beyond; no new tree, wall or gate is required.
The guide includes an irrigation layout and simple instructions for connecting a Rain Bird timer to an outside tap already prepared for irrigation, with one continuous tube and individual drippers positioned at each plant’s rootball.
What the price covers
€250 buys the digital guide for use at one property. You can share it with the gardener working on that property.
Print your guide as a handy garden booklet, with the planting and irrigation plans printed at A3 for easy reference as you work. Clear, step-by-step instructions guide you through buying, positioning, planting and caring for your plants, giving you the confidence to bring the design to life, yourself or with your gardener, and create a beautiful space to enjoy for years to come.
The design is supplied as shown. Plants, materials, delivery, ground preparation and installation are purchased separately. Site visits, personal advice and changes to the planting or layout are separate services. Construction, lighting and drainage drawings are not included.