TIME GARDEN

A curvilinear timber garden room, made by Green Unit, is the centrepiece of the recently opened Time Garden, at the Palliative Care Unit at Colchester General Hospital. Designed by Paul Baines, the garden fans around the building, which accommodates a hospital bed and seating, so patients can be in the garden whatever the weather. Clipped box hedges divide the drift-planting like the hours of a clock, with plants including Penstemon ‘Evelyn’, Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Lavendelturm’ and Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’. Three Catalpa bignonioides ‘Aurea’ spread a golden canopy over the space. paul-baines.com