29/08/2026
A Fresh Start for the Garden 🌿
There’s been a huge amount happening inside and outside at The Seymour, and over the last few weeks our attention has turned to the garden.
We’ve brought in a garden designer who came very highly recommended, and after walking the whole site with us, the strongest piece of advice was pretty simple, rip it all out and start again!
For many years The Seymour operated as a care home, and understandably the gardens had been designed much more around utility, access and ease of maintenance than anything else.
We now have the opportunity to start again from scratch and create something really beautiful — a garden that complements the house, makes the most of the setting and is somewhere our family can enjoy and continue developing over the years.
So that’s exactly what we’ve done. Almost everything has been cleared back, giving us a completely blank canvas to work with.
There’s still an enormous amount to do, and it certainly doesn’t look very glamorous at the moment, but this is one of those stages where you have to make things look considerably worse before they can get better!
The lawns will be the first big step, followed by the borders, planting and the gradual return of some much-needed colour.
Like everything at The Seymour, we’re not looking for a quick fix. We want to create something that feels as though it belongs here and will only get better as it matures over the years.
