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Join Isabel & Julian Bannerman at Ashington Manor as they share their instinctive, landscape-led approach to creating romantic English country gardens. Through intimate, beautifully filmed lessons, they reveal how to balance structure with wildness, craft views, use colour and texture, and let nature shape the space. With practical guidance and inspiring insights, the Bannermans show how...
We want to give you the inspiration, knowledge and confidence to create an English country garden that feels at one with its setting.
Isabel & Julian Bannerman
12 LESSONs / 2 HOURs
Julian and Isabel introduce Ashington Manor and the core ideas of the course: gardens are for living in, should feel theatrical and fun, and are built through experimentation and early structure.
This lesson explores the influences behind the Bannermans’ style and the practical principles that guide their work, from “right plant, right place” to careful observation and maintainable design.
Julian and Isabel share how Ashington’s landscape and history shaped early decisions, including bold structural moves, mass bulb planting, and the use of rambling roses for scent and drama.
This lesson covers how strong grids, paths, hedges and “punctuation points” create a garden that works in every season, including why yew and gravel are such effective structural tools.
Julian and Isabel explain how planting matures over time using anchor plants, repetition and “sacrificial” fillers to create impact early while long-term structure is established.
This lesson shows why the Bannermans avoid rigid colour schemes, use contrast confidently, and prioritise structure and site conditions over palette rules.
Julian and Isabel explore how structure supports freedom in planting, why mistakes often improve a garden, and how scent can be as powerful as colour.
This lesson explains how a bleak courtyard became a warm outdoor room through cobbles, gravel, big pots and bright, self-seeding planting.
Isabel shows how lavender avenues, sweet pea teepees and rambling roses create structure, height and scent, and how the space is edited as it matures.
This lesson focuses on yew hedges and green corridors as a calm, low-fuss backbone that holds the garden together and makes surrounding planting feel richer.
Julian demonstrates how to turn deep shade into a layered fernery with bulbs, winter scent and rambling roses up trees, plus the long-game magic of giant lilies.
This lesson celebrates a colour-saturated “mistake” as a design win, showing how bravery, self-seeding and happy accidents can create joyful planting.
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