Like an old village centre

Some gardens want to look brand new. This one wanted to look as if it had always been there – like an old village centre in the Würmtal. The secret lies in the ground: 305 m² of small granite setts, laid in arcs, plus 220 m² each of crusted granite slabs and quartzite in bands, framed by 167 metres of large stone edging. Paving in arcs is laid by hand, stone by stone – and that is exactly why the driveway looks as if it has grown over decades.

There is also a limestone dry stone wall, block steps, boulders as seats – and an antique village fountain that stands in tall greenery as if someone had forgotten it a hundred years ago. The planting relies on size and patience at once: eight hawthorn specimens and one Henry’s lime arrived as true semi-mature trees, along with around a thousand perennials and an orchard meadow that is left to grow tall.

Construction ran from 2016 to 2018, and the last large trees arrived from the nursery in early 2019. The photographs by Klas Stöver show the garden in 2019, freshly completed. More about the craft: Walls and fences · Trees & large trees.

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Photos: Klas Stöver