In 2020, garden designer Jelle Grintjes and his wife decided to move from a small terraced house in the centre of town to a larger property on the outskirts. Unusually, this also meant relocating a 1,400 square-metre perennial garden that Jelle had made nearby. He’d approached his local municipality in 2013 about renting some disused land in front of his house. “The idea was to make a garden for myself as an experiment, to try different combinations and see if it would work,” he says. The municipality agreed, but on one condition – he had to make the garden public.
That garden soon became an important showcase for his work. Visitor numbers grew quickly, with people coming from as far afield as Australia. “I thought, if people are coming from so far to see my garden, maybe I should make a bigger one to offer them more. I talked about it with my wife, and we decided to take this big step.” The move was a gamble. They weren’t sure if people would visit a new garden, and they faced the huge challenge of transplanting the perennials, grasses and bulbs from the previous space.
His new garden, originally the meadow of a nearby farm, sits on heavy clay, so Jelle’s first task was to add a 10cm layer of sand across the site. This helps control the weeds but has also opened up the soil and makes it easier for plants to self-seed.
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