Plants and trees in the park

Designer: Jo Fawcett, 2018

Town Park’s planting scheme is influenced by the work of Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, whose plant designs in public spaces help connect and engage people with nature. Planted around the sculptures are colourful and structural perennials such as asters, echinaceas, lythrums and persicarias with the ornamental grasses of calamagrostis, miscanthus and stipas to add textural elements to the design.

The woodland planting hosts ferns, heucheras and euphorbias amongst the early flowering perennials, and bulbs including snowdrops, winter aconites, bluebells and anemones. The pond margins include iris, marsh marigold, loosestrifes and berginias.

Many trees have been added to the landscape with the promise of spring blossom from cherries, malus and amelanchier, autumnal colour from red maples, birches and oaks, and special interest specimens of tulip trees, liquidambars and pines.