Gravel Garden

The blue gate garden

Low-maintenance gravel planting with texture, structure and soft seasonal colour.

Gravel Garden in Oxfordshire

A free-draining site and a low-maintenance brief made this the perfect candidate for a gravel garden.

Clipped yew columns and a painted blue gate give the garden its structure and its focal point, with a weathered urn drawing the eye down the path.

Everything planted here wants to live in gravel: lavender, artemisia, euphorbia, salvias and hardy geraniums, spilling over the edges and needing almost no watering once established.