LAURENCE JOSEPH

Garden Design

The Brief

Within a limited budget, we made some simple changes to the garden, giving it character and appeal

What We Did

The Approach

The garden was bare, full of rubbish with no plants and was generally unloved. A shabby pergola had been erected, which sole purpose was to cover the plasterboard illegally buried underneath. Viewers were put off by the amount of work needed.

This was a 150ft garden so with a limited budget, we weren’t able to tackle the whole job.

We made a start by creating an area immediately outside the back doors that gave instant impact and invited you outdoors and which beautifully framed the house from the outside.

We cleared the vast majority or rubbish and dug in some simple borders to frame the lawned area.

The orchard caging that was overgrown and inaccessible was removed and generally tidied up.

The house had been extended, but lots of the rubble created by this ended up being dumped in the garden. We used the rubble to make a concrete base at the end of the garden, and used the abandoned bricks we found to build a border for this.

We built a summer house (potting shed) using recycled glass, and recycled french doors. After that, the greenhouse was assembled so the working part of the garden (with plenty of space to grow veggies) could get to work.

Our design makes the most of the different heights of plants and shrubs, along with different foliage types and colours.

Here we have the dark red foliage of the Cotinus (“smoke bush”) set against the long grass (“north wind”), and the feathery leaves of the Sambucus “Golden Tower” to the right of the grass.  Amongst this we have the Abelia and the colourful Cosmos repeated along the border.

Before

garden before work
Garden before work
Garden area before design
Garden before work
Garden before work
Garden before design

After

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