Category: Garden Design

Rooftop Gardens in New York City

If there’s one thing you would not expect to see high-up in the New York City skyline – it’s gardens. But there are plenty hidden atop the city’s skyscrapers where you can peer down at the busy streets whilst enjoying the peace and tranquillity of a spectacular rooftop garden.

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Pleached Trees

Pleaching is a technique we use to create screening and walkways and avenues by weaving tree branches together to create a single structure from its component parts. But in modern garden design, it is so much more…think drama and pleasing structure.

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Swimming Pool Gardens

A well-designed pool should be a pleasing enhancement to the garden so there’s no need to hide it away. The aesthetic will be more pleasing if it is square to the house and if its proportions reflect the architecture of the home. If the pool is further away from the house then you need to think about access routes to and from the new pool

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Front Gardens

Getting to your front door is the single most important function of the space in front of your house. But that doesn’t mean it can’t also lend itself to enhancing not only the aesthetics of your home but the re-sale value too. You need a generous pathway and one not blocked by plants that will soak your trouser legs as you pass along and so the key here is to design a path that looks generous and creates a feeling of space, not meanness.

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Town Gardens. Small is Beautiful.

The perfect town garden for me would be a space of green calm with different ‘rooms’ for entertaining and relaxing. A small seating space with a comfortable and stylish outdoor lounge in which I could unwind, surrounded by small trees for screening and lush under-planting. The sound of a water feature would help mask the urban background noise and subtle uplighting amongst the plants, plus dappled lighting in trees would make the space usable through into the evening.

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Pergolas and other uprights

When you think about garden design you will probably think about all the different dimensions you want us to include in your garden – a veggie patch, a swimming pool, a shed to keep the tools in, a table to have lunch in the shade and one to catch the evening sun but one of the most important dimensions in great garden design is the one that is the most overlooked – the vertical or upright structures that help give the overall design a three dimensional perspective.

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Conservatories and glasshouses. Unique garden rooms.

The timeless elegance of a beautifully crafted glasshouse doesn’t just bring an architectural beauty to the garden it also extends your growing season at both ends of the gardening year.

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Planning a Pathway

We human beings are sometimes at the mercy of strong but hidden impulses which, if questioned about, we would struggle to explain and garden designers know one of these impulses is the urge to get from A to B the in the straightest line possible.

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Create your own Secret Garden

As a child my favourite spot in my parent’s modest garden was the dark secluded corner where lush leafed plants encased an area my siblings and I nicknamed ‘Favourite Corner’.

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Understated Elegance. Natural Stone

Using high quality bespoke natural stone allows you to achieve so much more with your garden design whether your brief is contemporary garden or traditional garden.

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