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… >>>
The client’s requirement was a Victorian style courtyard garden reflecting her obsession with the period’s Artisan detailing and Cottage Garden Planting. >>>
I designed this wildlife garden in Worthing, West Sussex. The brief was to introduce vertical interest within an empty ‘L’ shaped garden. The clients love Monet’s Giverny garden and they wished the design to include a sense of this garden’s opulent planting and water. Trees dominate the boundary, and provide an essential shelter belt to filter… >>>
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’. >>>
A professional couple desired a plant-focused front garden design and so a scheme was devised to complement the grand style of their 1840’s town house. The layout inspiration was taken from the original feature windows and a series of diagonal diamond patterns were created for side paths and box parterre layout. The clipped box gives the… >>>
This ornamental kitchen garden is featured as a case study in a recent Frances Lincoln publication called New Small Garden, written by Noel Kingsbury. Space is premium in these Victorian terraced houses urban Hackney, so every part of the design must earn its place. An asymmetrical garden design layout was used for this urban kitchen garden with paths… >>>
Kwai, a fine art painter, needed an artist’s garden: a quiet contemplative space in which she could draw and also entertain. The garden was dedicated to the client’s late mother who originated from Hong Kong and the planting was to reflect this. Carol chose the traditional theme of the Chinese Stroll Garden loosely based on… >>>
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