After many years of service as a family garden, these clients felt their garden had become tired and wanted to update and refresh it.
The plot featured a large square lawn with borders around the edges, and included a small patio area along the back of the house.
The clients wanted to enlarge this patio area, creating more space for dining and entertaining, and they also wanted to create a new seating area to make the most of the evening sun.
Combining curves and sharp angles, a smaller lawn was created, framed by borders of varying depths and heights. Steps and levels gave the garden energy and direction, inviting people in towards the new west facing seating area at the back, ready to capture the last rays of the evening sun.
Warm honey tones were used across screening, stone paths, pavers and non-porous, low maintenance porcelain paving, and the structures of the beds, to tie the hard landscaping together with the brick of the house.
Colourful and cheerful planting, with year round interest, were installed. Taller bamboo and climbers at the rear break up the backdrop of the neighbouring fences. Slow growing hydrangea will do the same in time.
Slim Italian cypress trees (cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis) are set against the new modern horizontal fencing strips which support climbing tracleospernum jasminoides - beautiful evergreen jasmine.
