Longwood Meadow garden
A linear garden designed to both echo the garden geometry within the adjacent West Conservatory and relate Longwood’s curated landscape to its agrarian surroundings.
Plant palette
Concept drawing of a walk through a soft cloud with bolder forms peaking through intermittently.
Concept drawing of a flowing, organic planting pattern as a nod to the adjacent reflection pond and a contrast to the rigid garden geometry.
Structural planting studies to anchor and punctuate the garden: none, totems, cloud-form masses, hedges.
Location: kennett square, Pa
Status: under construction
Landscape Architect: reed Hilderbrand
Role: design lead
This 8,000 sqft perennial garden is composed of interplanted grasses and a muted palette of flowering plants, recalling the site’s early 20th century French heritage, and structural, cloudform drifts of clumping shrubs.