Ballyhackamore Yard & Cottage Garden

This gorgeous 19th century home needed its yard area renovated, coal house removed and garden redesigned and built. Scouring the reclamation yards of North Down, we were able to find original Scrabo stone window sills from an old church that we repurposed into steps. We used reclaimed 12” Belfast Quarry tiles to surface the area with a little bit of bedding space along the foot of the plaster removed walls to grow roses and herbaceous perennials. The back garden was divided with low Irish slate walls and a planter with pink and beige sandstone flags replicating the colours of Scrabo stone paving. The garden was planted with a variety of cottage garden self- seeding perennials.