Bickleigh Vale is the epitome of Edna Walling, where she not only designed the garden, but the houses also.
Design elements of Bickleigh Vale include:
- a series of outside rooms.
- sensitivity to site – quite relaxed, informal and romantic.
- mass planting to frame the lawn that spreads through the garden, leading the eye.
- English cottage plants such as hellebore, azalea, Daphne, dogwood and viburnum.
- also Camelia’s and always a Wisteria Colonnade
- trees include oak, beech and birches
- gateways and paths that link the cottages
- birdbaths, stone walls and “Secret Rooms”
…..and always a Wisteria Colonnade
Freesias
Mass plantings of Freesias
Freesas
Bluebells
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
Salvia
Roses
Hydrange
Dogwood
Birch
Berries
Wisteria
Clivia
Bickleigh Vale is named after a village in Devon where Edna Walling grew up. The cottages, which are located along a cul-de-sac, have British names too. There is ‘Glencairn’, ‘The Sheilan’, ‘Downderry’, ‘The Barn’ and ‘Badgers Wood’.
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale
GlenCairn
Badger Wood
Pathways
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village – Stone wall
Birdbath made by Edna Walling
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village – Brick Pathways
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village – Bird House
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village – Birdhouse
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village – Pathways
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village – Steps in stone
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale – The Village – Badgers Wood – Wisteria
Bickleighvale – Badgers Wood
Edna Walling – Bickleigh Vale