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Erskine Centenary Garden

MB Landscape Architects

The garden set within the hospital grounds has been designed with quiet reflection in mind.The garden includes a raised circular mirror pond, a woven hazel screen enclosing a seating area, and Moon Gate all set within a planting palette which includes ferns, groundcover and herbaceous planting contained within a beech hedge and reclaimed sleeper boundary wall.Erskine Hospital is set within a designed landscape dating from the late 18th Century.  The house, now a hotel, was acquired by Erskine in 1916 as a veterans hospital to provide care for sailors and soldiers returning from the conflict of the Second World War.

Overview

Location

Location 

Bishopton

Category

Parks and gardens

Landscape Architect

MB Landscape Architects

Client

Erskine

Brief

To design a sensory garden to mark ‘A Centenary of care’ 1916 to date by Erskine. The garden is to be fully accessible, and include sensory elements. On completion the garden is to become an asset for residents, patients, their cares, staff and visitors alike. Erskine have been caring for veterans since 1916, and are known as Scotland’s foremost provider of care for veterans and their spouses.

Awards

Bishopton

Details

Project Team

MB Landscape Architects

Local planning authority or government body

East Renfrewshire Council

Year Completed

October 2017

Project Size

small scale less than 1ha

Technical's

Planting

Ferns including Blechnum spicant, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Polypodium vulgare and Osmunda regalis. Ground cover including Asarum europaeum, Pachysandra terminalis ‘Variegatus’ and Geranium renardii. Evergreen shrub Sarcococca humilis. Herbaceous planting including Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora, Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae and Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Album’. Trees, Downy birch and Hornbeam, set within a Common beech hedge.

Materials

Dutch clay brick, CEDec path surface, Galvanised steel edging, woven hazel screen with chestnut poles, reclaimed railway sleepers

Contractors 

MB Landscape Architects

Approximate Map Location


Location

Bishopton

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