The brief for this restoration project of a 7 acre formal garden on a large estate was to create a contemporary garden with heavy perennial planting for year round interest. Respecting the garden's original layout of formal terraces, we added mediterranean gravel borders around the main entertaining terraces, rose and herbaceous borders around the croquet lawn. Formal box gardens of platforms and mounds around the house are counterbalanced by an acre of garden given over to looser perennials planted in deep curving beds leading to a natural swimming pool. A turf amphitheatre around an orangery designed by Ian Adam Smith Architects and a formal potager, courtyard and entrance forecourt gardens were also designed.