IN BRIEF
What Naturalistic planting within an older more traditional garden.
Where Oxfordshire.
Size One acre.
Soil Imported neutral loam over Cotswold limestone.
Climate Temperate.
Hardiness zone USDA 6.
On a winter day, the entire view from Jacky Hobbs’ window shimmers with grasses and perennial seedheads. “Many of the plants are huge, they tower over us and fill the windows,” she says. “I love the fact that these plants stay up all winter. It is wonderful if we get a frost. I go to the bottom of the garden in the morning and look up and it's backlit and it's like everything is