Country Garden Drystone Wall & Flower Bed - Methven, Perthshire.

A close up of a drystone wall in Perthshire. Clematis drapes over the fieldstone copes. Drystone built by The Drystone Company Perthshire

A complete garden renovation including removal of an old patio and the new addition of a new boundary wall and a thirteen metre long flower bed.

The boundary wall includes a seat height section with flat copes and we used double copes on the taller sections which look beautiful and work better proportionally in this setting than standard copes.

Clematis drapes over double copes on a drystone garden wall in Perthshire Scotland. Built by The Drystone Company
A coursed, fieldstone, drystone wall in Perthshire Scotland. A garden boundary wall built by The Drystone Company

We built the flower bed to a sitting height and used flat copes to make the top of this wall a functional and surprisingly comfortable seat. The flat copes also make a striking visual statement protruding into the soil of the planting bed. The spaces between the copes work well for growing plants and we built the face of the wall with planting in mind too. There are lots of plants that feel right at home on and in walls and our work will look settled in very quickly by the end of this summer. This wall has been planted with Campanula, Stonecrop, Red Valerian and Erigeron, to name a few.

A garden, drystone retaining wall in a garden in Perthsire Scotland. Built by The Drystone Company
Flat copes on a drystone retaining wall in Perthshire Scotland.

To aid in this ‘settled in’ look, we dug in the foundation stones on both structures which makes it look as if the wall has always been there.

All stone was sourced locally (within five miles of the property!) and we reused stone that came out of the mortared wall that we took down too.

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