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greenhouse eco-garden
Award-winning boutique hotel, The Green
House Hotel, has unveiled its new eco-
garden in partnership with Dorset-distilled
Black Cow vodka.
The Green House Hotel is famous for
being as serious about luxury as it is about
sustainability and its new garden design is no
exception.
Opening to critical acclaim in 2010, the
luxury hotel boasts 32 beautiful guest rooms,
a chic bar and a two-rosette award winning
restaurant. In 2017, the Green House was
voted Best Green Hotel by Condé Nast.
Eight years on, the hotel is still striving to
remain at the forefront of sustainability and
ethical hospitality by constantly analysing
best practices and reviewing modern
technologies.
The latest project at the hotel has been the
garden redesign as the General Manager of
the hotel, Olivia O’Sullivan, explained: “The
garden is a really important space for so
many reasons. It is an extension of the hotel
enabling guests to enjoy a meal or drink
in the sunshine and proving couples with
beautiful outdoor space for weddings.
“Black Cow was the ideal sponsor for our
new outdoor bar as the local brand creates its
spirit from whey, an excess, and historically
useless, by-product of the cheese making
process.”
“Like the Green House
Hotel, Black Cow
vodka takes pride in its
environmental impact
while delivering a
premium product.”
Olivia employed garden designer, Kate
Elysee, who was given a very exact brief; the
space needed to be suitable for weddings,
regular guests and wildlife.
using sympathetic planting to compliment
the hotel, its surroundings, and the social
elements that they wanted to have, bringing
this area up to date.
“Every element needed to be as eco-friendly
as possible, under the hotel’s ethos which
included using organic soil, local planting,
reusing materials on site already, sourcing
other materials as locally as possible and the
and the garden itself also needed to work in
three ways, a romantic setting for couples, a
landscaped outdoor eating area, as well as a
haven for wildlife.”
The garden and will be the first hotel eco-
garden in Dorset. The Green House Hotel
will be welcoming visitors and offering tours
to highlight the eco-ethos behind the garden
design.
Kate commented: “I have been designing
gardens for 18 years and this is my first eco-
project, so it’s been very interesting for me.
The challenge was to tie the garden together
Contact us on: 01202 498 900 or info@greenhouse hotel.com • The Green House Hotel, 4 Grove Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3 AX