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BESIDE THE SEASIDE

“THE GARDEN BLENDS THE COASTAL WILDNESS WITH FORMAL PLANTING AROUND THE HOUSE, CREATING A SEAMLESS TRANSITION BETWEEN THE TWO”

ANDSCAPE designer Anthony Paul describes his seaside garden in West Wittering on the Sussex coast as a ‘carpet garden’. It is easy to see why he draws this comparison. Soft mounds of low-profile repetitive planting echo the patterns of a Persian rug with dramatic swoops of colour interspersed with triangular corners of pure white pebbles. ‘The way a garden sits in the

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