A planting plan for a Mediterranean style courtyard garden; low maintenance, sensory, year round interest and architectural shapes.
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Contemporary house and garden – Surrey
A contemporary new house surrounded by an extensive sloping garden, woodland and orchard. Timber, crisp concrete paving and local brick were the main materials used in the site construction; these were further used in the hard landscaping. Low maintenance was a key requirement in the landscaping brief whilst retaining the contemporary feel with the use of curves to…
Large Garden – Surrey
A garden design for a clients who have moved to a large house, the brief was to redesign the car park , approach to house (and office) as well as the side of the house and rear patio area for clients with a very busy lifestyle. I used very low maintenance, cottage style planting introducing structure with new paths,…
Implementing design in phases
A garden design is sometimes implemented in phases depending upon season and / or budget. In this Somerset garden there was only just time in the spring to prepare beds and plant some bare root hedging. My clients have been experimenting with mowing patterns to introduce interest and a sense of division of space, such a…
Small courtyard garden – Somerset
A charming small courtyard in need of decluttering of pots and containers, a design, hard rejuvanative pruning of shrubs, reshaping, levelling and reseeding of lawn. I offered hands-on pruning instruction to the client so empowering her to tackle more pruning next winter (pruning of overgrown Forsythia bush after flowering) – this was a nice small project with fast…
Old farmhouse garden on slope – Shepton Mallet
Town garden – London
This is a family garden on split levels and on a heavy clay loam, it has been designed to attract bees, create year round colour, secret areas for the children, a vegetable growing area and a new front garden. In addition to the survey and detailed design, planting plans, drainage and electical plans were drawn…
Old Farmhouse garden – Somerset
The New Year has begun with an interesting design for a north facing, sloping site with the survey revealing a 3 metre drop across the garden. The design is going to incorporate stone walls, hedges for privacy, vegetable garden, water, tree house, contoured earth features, terraces, lean to greenhouse, sculpture, etc…
The Blue School – Wells
This is a raised level area bordered by two straight banks, there are several semi mature trees and a glasshouse. One bank has been scalloped to create a free flowing form, the other bank built up using gabions filled with local stone. The overall design uses very organic forms to detract from the large adjacent…
Low budget wildlife garden – Hampshire
I have just finished a project where the existing patio needed to be replaced and enlarged which required the lawn to be pushed back and retained by reusing existing railway sleepers. Borders were created around the lawn to detract from the long straight sides of the garden and to provide colour and interest throughout the…