Cripps Barn hosts weddings in some of the most historic homes and buildings around the country


The venues are recognised for their history and splendour and each can host up to 250 weddings a year. The gardens and landscapes that surround these incredible buildings, present a unique design challenge – the planting must deliver sufficient wow-factor to be worthy of wedding pictures but also be resilient enough to withstand huge footfall across 50 weeks of the year.
We have worked on a number of sites, helping to develop an overall landscape strategy, planting designs for specific locations or reinvigorating planting and landscaping in landmark venues.
We have worked on a number of sites, helping to develop an overall landscape strategy, planting designs for specific locations or reinvigorating planting and landscaping in landmark venues.





At Ivy Lodge in Cirencester Park, we designed a planting scheme to suit the gothic grandeur of the building’s facade - an avenue of box pyramids fit for a newly wedded bride, and deep hardworking borders that could withstand long dry summers and thousands of merry revellers.
At Bolton Abbey we remodelled the terrace outside the historic tithe barn to acommodate higher footfall and little light, and in Derbyshire we created a scheme using troughs and planters sourced from the estate to surround the Argentinian asada and bring the building into scale.
Across all, our brief and intention remained the - high impact, resilient planting that looks as photo-worthy for a Christmas wedding as it does in June
At Bolton Abbey we remodelled the terrace outside the historic tithe barn to acommodate higher footfall and little light, and in Derbyshire we created a scheme using troughs and planters sourced from the estate to surround the Argentinian asada and bring the building into scale.
Across all, our brief and intention remained the - high impact, resilient planting that looks as photo-worthy for a Christmas wedding as it does in June
Sketches, reference images and stages ︎︎︎






