This garden was a collaboration with the architect owner. A retirement project, we wanted to use the site to provide all the opportunities that time on your hands can provide in the garden. Keeping the existing levels, and by moving the garage to the side of the house, we were able to create an elegant…
This small garden was in a lot of trouble, with bad soil and drainage, poor quality turf and inaccessible planting. The client needed easy access to all parts of the garden and a low maintenance planting solution so that she could enjoy her outdoor space. The wet turf was replaced with artficial turf, whilst the…
This tranquil water feature and seating area replaced an overgrown planting bed. The Cor-Ten screens are bespoke, set behind a circle of Porphyry setts. A centre water bowl provides some soft movement and sounds as the water overspills gently. The planting, when mature will be soft and billowing with grasses, verbena, rogersia, salvias, hostas, ferns…
Still to be finished with some soft herbaceous planting, this classic courtyard garden was created from a damp patch of grass. The whole space has been lifted by the natural stone paving and the property complimented by the formal shapes of the buxus balls and topiarised holly trees
A rural garden over two levels. The lower courtyard has a deck and pergola set into bedrock with vines twining up and across the beams. The upper garden is traditional, with a lawn, flowering shrubs, grasses and perennials. Both elements are linked by a slope planted with a wilder, more natural approach. The garden was…
A low-maintenance gravel garden has replaced an overgrown, shrubby front garden, bringing a sense of light and space. Different materials create colour contrast. Alpines, grasses and colourful shrubs create the main structure of the planting. A pergola with an internal seat creates a focal point in the corner of the garden. With thanks to Cosmetic…
This garden encircles a bungalow. It is a sunny site with a low maintenance approach. A large deck area sits outside the doors of the bungalow and is framed by grey sawn sandstone slabs set into beach pebbles. A grass and cobble contemplation garden sits behind a slatted screen for quiet moments. Thanks to the…
A shady rear courtyard has been created using a mix of hard landscaping with traditional finishes. The car parking areas are cobbled and hard-wearing, whiles the stone flags are aesthetically pleasing and interspersed or enhanced with pebbles and minimal planting. This has created a useful and pleasing space. Build by Cosmetic Gardening and Construction.
This small kids den is hidden away behind large shrubs. It is a dry, secret space accessed through a ‘wildlife’ door which hides the wolves-den mural on the back wall. A timber pergola sits over the den from which kids hanging pods can be attached for sitting in.
A corner site, previously an enclosed front garden, has been transformed into a contemporary garden space and driveway to allow for an electric car parking space and charging point. Planting inspired by the ‘prairie’ style with grasses and perennials punctuates the gravel and cobble areas creating colour and structural interest.
