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Riverside Family Garden
The design has three distinct areas – an entertainment space adjoining the house, a more formal garden around a large lawn that is framed by modern burnt timber pergolas, and an informal bog garden, which runs up to the river. The bog garden is crossed by a raised and irregular timber boardwalk, which also leads you to a private gazebo with a weathered copper roof.
Wildlife Garden
This garden is all about attracting and supporting wildlife but also provides space for entertaining and a natural swimming pool. There are generous borders throughout the garden and on the eastern border a mown path through a wildflower meadow leads you to an intimate seating area. This is connected to the pool by stepping stones through the aquatic planting, that naturally filter the swimming pool.
Paved Garden
The brief was to create a covered entertainment area which, separated from the two new extensions, one from the house and the other a garden studio, both of which had bifold doors opening onto the garden. New borders deliver planted views from the glazed extensions and you then step up to the main seating area, which is broken up by using both paving and clay pavers in the design.
Urban Garden
The client wanted a seating area surrounded by planting, a water feature and a place to grow vegetables. The design creates a seated area directly outside the glazed kitchen doors, that is covered by a pergola and surrounded on three sides by generous planting. The back of the garden is accessed by a path to the left, which passes a raised vegetable bed and then opens into a gravel area, broken up by planting pockets. The gravel area ends in a more private seat in the top right, overlooking the small pond and shaded by a tree.
Front Garden
This front garden packs a lot into a small area. The brief was to deliver a small private garden, together with access from the gates and a separate area for a hot tub. The main border in the middle of the garden does a lot of work, by dividing the space, delivering a focal point from the main property and providing a planted view as you enter the gates. The idea was to deliver discrete areas using varied materials, but, given the limited space, to have a central shared border.
Sloping Garden
This garden, connected to a newly built property, had a small paved area directly outside the property and then a fairly steep slope down to a lawned garden with no planting. The client wanted to enlarge the paved area connected to the house and then have steps down to a garden with large planting beds, trees and additional seating areas to enjoy the garden from. The design uses the shape of the garden to provide two new seating areas, obscured from the property by planting and only discovered when you explore the garden.
Family Garden
The garden already had established borders at the top of the garden, a good lawn and paving adjacent to the house. The design aimed to use what was already there, but extended the paving to allow for a covered seating area and enlarged the planted areas to provide richer and more dense planting. The seated area was placed to one side so that the grass area was optimised, but also pulled away from the fence line so that planted troughs could soften the fence and provide a backdrop to the seated entertainment space.
Driveway Turning Circle
This planting plan is for a large island in the client’s driveway. They wanted simple maintenance and long flowering plants with a fairly muted palette. Some year-round structure comes from the evergreen shrubs, Pittosporum and Choisya, and the Nepeta and Gaura flower from May to September and clumps of Salvia from June to October.
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