With an almost entirely flat topography that meets farmland, and eventually stretches out past the hard exterior of wartime buildings to the North Sea, the landscape needed height and structure as well as colour to enliven the site. A strong northerly wind regularly blows straight off the sea hitting the house and garden. The planting needed to be resistant to these cold winter blasts and often arid summers. To offset the harsh lines of the wartime radar station and Nissen huts to the rear of the garden, soft floating grasses and native meadow planting were designed to encircle the house, continuing up the sides of the Radar shelter and out into the farmland.

The buildings now sit in contrast but harmony with the bright and vibrant planting; hues of purples, pinks and greens nestle into the landscape, up to and against the buildings.