Originally an untidy plot with a very unstable rusty stairway access and a decayed concrete landing, blocking light and views from basement windows. Our first draft design for a more extensive, expensive basement excavation with more generous steps, was reduced due to budget constraints as the new metal stairway took presidence, for access and safety… >>>
The clients require access around this awkward sloping garden, a bold seasonal planting spectacle to view from the upper terrace and house windows and low impact landscape installation with no paving, brickwork or concrete on site! Sleepers in filled with gravel create strong structural pathways and steps to deal with the slope. Dicksonia antarctica tree ferns… >>>
The clients, a busy couple with a young family, had recently purchased the adjoining property to their home. The brief was to create a garden design scheme that would link the garden from the existing property, with the newly acquired one; opening up and enhancing the combined space. The challenge was to deal with the… >>>
A sense of child-like fun leads this fantasy town garden project. The client’s obsession with the story of Alice in Wonderland led Carol to prune and train the four metre Taxus baccata bush into a rabbit form. Pruning topiary in this way takes a few years. The skill is to stylise the shape simply into the desired form. This ‘White Rabbit’ ended up reminiscent of the Playboy logo but this adds to the fun aspect of the living sculpture. It was a garden for ‘grown-ups’. >>>
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