The route around the garden of brick and paved paths leads to various seating locations. A new lawn gives breathing space from the plant densely planted borders. A fresh green beech hedge provides cool screening in summer and warming tones in autumn. Deciduous trees and shrubs are used as focal plants… >>>
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… >>>
Exotic escape jungle garden had to be tough enough for party revellers, with a relatively low maintenance planting scheme and bespoke solid hand made furniture. “Nothing ‘off the shelf’ but something bespoke, different and earthy” said the client. A place to party and escape to! >>>
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… >>>
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