Savill Rose Garden
Officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 7th June 2010
Client: The Royal Crown Estate
Landscape Architect: Wilson McWilliam Studio
(Photos courtesy of Wilson McWilliam Studio – www.wmstudio.co.uk)
The re-design of an existing summer garden within Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park to create a rose garden within the design of a contemporary rose.
One of the main features of the garden was the installation of an elevated steel and oak clad walkway. The walkway swirls around and up to a suspended viewing platform with a see through metal grille base. From here you can over look the rose garden design and also take in the heady scents of the roses once they are in full bloom.
Work involved:
Groundwork’s; contouring, removing existing vegetation and preparing the ground for new rose beds. Stripping of topsoil and subsoil into separate piles for re-use within the garden.
As roses can suffer from rose sickness if planted into soil that another rose has already been planted in, then the subsoil and topsoils had to be graded and used depending on the application within the new design i.e. old rose planted soil was used under pathways to build up levels and soil that did not previously have roses growing in it, was used within the new rose beds.
Drainage layers were installed with soakaways, inspection chambers and french drains.
Four different types of pathways were constructed including Coxwell gravel, Tarmac, Sureset (a resin bound aggregate) and Yorkstone paving.
Timber edging was installed to all pathways and lawn edges. Lawn areas were turfed. Bunded grass beds were also contoured and planted up.
The original garden had dry stone alpine beds present. These were restored and planted up as an original feature.
Wooden benches were installed within hard and soft areas as feature points around the garden.